Foreign Nationals Case Study 2022 - Shah Alom Mia An estimated 230,000 Bangladeshis work across the Maldives archipelago, including tens of thousands who are undocumented, a remarkable number for a country with a population of around 520,000 (World Bank 2021). However, until 2022 there had been no documented cases of foreign nationals being sentenced to death in the Maldives. In February 2022, Bangladeshi national Shah Alom Mia (Salim) was sentenced to death for the murder of Mahmood Abubakar, a Maldivian businessman. Salim was sentenced to death in compliance with Islamic Shariah, and under the Act on Prohibiting Threatening and Possession of Dangerous Weapons and Sharp Objects (Abdulla 2022). It is thought that the murder was related to a robbery. The victim’s heirs requested the death penalty under the Shariah principle of retributive qisas. This was the rst time that a foreign national had been sentenced to death in Maldives, with all previous sentences being imposed on Maldivians. Acknowledgements With special thanks to Francesca Rigg for her assistance with this research in the Maldives. Death Penalty Research Unit, University of Oxford For more research see: fi foreign-nationals.uwazi.io or tinyurl.com/mappingdeathrow