On 4 June 2012, prominent Maldivian blogger and journalist Ismail __�Hilath' Rasheed was stabbed in the neck near his house in Male. Police Sub-Inspector Hassan Haneef confirmed that Rasheed was stabbed around 8:15pm and was undergoing emergency treatment in ADK hospital. An informed source at ADK hospital said Rasheed was bleeding but conscious when he was brought to the hospital, and that he was expected to remain in surgery until 2:30am. Early morning of 5 June 2012, Rasheed's condition had stabilized. Rasheed, a once outspoken blogger against extremism and former editor of newspaper Haveeru, was previously attacked by a group of men on 10 December 2011 - Human Rights Day - while attending a protest calling for religious tolerance. A group of men attacked the protesters with stones, and Rasheed was taken to IGMH with a fractured skull. He was subsequently arrested by police for questioning over his involvement in the protest Rasheed's popular and controversial blog, www.hilath.com, was blocked in November 2011 by the Communications Authority of the Maldives (CAM) on the order of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. The Ministry made the request on the grounds that the site contained anti-Islamic material, CAM confirmed at the time. Hilath claimed he was being censored for expressing his version of Islam, and called for more freedom of interpretation within the faith. "I call upon all concerned to amend the clause in the constitution which requires all Maldivians to be Sunni Muslims only" his statement read. "__�Unto you your religion and unto me my religion,' and __�There is no compulsion in religion'" he said, quoting Qur'an 109:6 and 2:256. Following the blocking of his blog and his attack in December, Rasheed became less outspoken on the subject of religion and withdrew from the public spotlight. On 12 May 2012 he tweeted his intention to stop blogging altogether, and stated that he had "repented and am now a Muslim. But a very tolerant one at that."