Last updated on March 4th, 2019 at 01:14 pm
In what must be one of the worst sham trials in modern history, former President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has been found guilty of ‘terrorism’ and sentenced to 13 years imprisonment.
The three-judge bench unanimously found Nasheed guilty of ordering the arrest of a chief judge in January 2012 when he was leader of the Indian Ocean archipelago.
“Nasheed is found guilty of arresting and illegally detaining judge Abdulla Mohamed,” judge Abdulla Didi told the court in a verdict just before midnight.
The ruling came four days after Nasheed’s lawyers quit in protest against what they called a biased trial aimed at destroying his political career.
Nasheed, the country’s first democratically elected leader, was originally cleared of the charge last month but a few days later the prosecutor general had him re-charged and arrested under tough anti-terror laws.
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