Blogger Who Criticized Government, Radical Islam Killed In Maldives

Yameen Rasheed, a 29-year-old blogger and activist in the Maldives, was stabbed to death on Sunday. Rasheed was a prominent satirist and commentator who took aim at radical Islam in the Maldives, and was a frequent critic of the government. Last year he reported receiving death threats.

Political tension has been mounting in the Maldives since a 2012 coup ousted the country's first democratically elected president. More recently the Maldives has seen dozens of its citizens leave to join the so-called Islamic State.

Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti talks with Mohamed Junayd (@mjunayd), a journalist with the publication Maldives Independent, about Rasheed's life and violent death.