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| Lawyer for Maldives' ex-president stabbed in Male |
| 2015-09-06 |
[ARABNEWS] A lawyer for the Maldives' tossed in the slammerPlease don't kill me! former president was stabbed in the islands' capital ahead of a visit by his international legal team, including leading human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activist Amal Clooney, his party said Saturday. Lawyer Mahfooz Saeed underwent emergency surgery and was in a stable condition following the attack Friday evening in Male, ex-leader Mohammed Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) said. "There were many people who saw the incident. The attackers were also caught on CCTV cameras," Shauna Aminath, a spokeswoman for the MDP, of which Saeed is also a member, told AFP. The party believes the attack was politically motivated, she said. "This vicious attack must not go unpunished -- Maldives authorities must ensure that human rights defenders can work free from fear of reprisals and that those responsible are held to account," the human rights group said in a statement. The attack came as London-based Clooney, whose husband is actor George Clooney, is due to travel to the Maldives next week to meet with Nasheed. |
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