Hundreds of men and women demonstrated outside the United Nations building in the Maldives over a film deemed offensive to Islam that has led to protests around the world, police said today.
About 100 to 400 people gathered outside the UN building during a two-hour period last evening and dispersed
peacefully,” Maldivian police spokesman Hassen Haneef told AFP by telephone.
The private Minivan newspaper said yesterday’s protesters set fire to a US flag outside the UN compound in the capital island of Male.
The Maldives is an Islamic republic known for its liberal lifestyle among the 330,000 Sunni population.
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