MAAFUSHI, Maldives — In the maximum‑security wing of Maafushi Prison, a man in his fifties lies awake most nights, staring at the fluorescent light that never quite dims. Sleep comes in fragments. When it does, he says, the ghosts arrive — the faces of those he harmed, the ones he insists reach for his throat the moment he closes his eyes. He wakes with a jolt, breathless, as if surfacing from a long dive. He has spent decades running from those shadows. Now they have nowhere else to go but into his dreams. His story begins long before the crimes … Continue reading A State‑Made Criminal