Mohamed Nasheed: jailed 13 years for terrorism
Former Maldives president and opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in prison Friday after being convicted of a terrorism charge, a ruling likely to fuel further unrest in the honeymoon islands.
A three-judge criminal court unanimously found Nasheed, the Indian Ocean archipelago’s first democratically-elected leader, guilty of ordering the arrest of a chief judge when he was president in January 2012.
“Nasheed is found guilty of arresting and illegally detaining judge Abdulla Mohamed,” judge Abdulla Didi told the court. Nasheed was then taken to Dhoonidhoo prison, near the capital island Male.
Nasheed, however, remained …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
