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| Maldives Jails ex-Vice President on Terrorism Charge |
| 2016-06-07 |
[An Nahar] Former Maldives vice president Ahmed Adeeb was tossed in the slammerMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for 10 years on on a terrorism charge, his lawyer said Monday, weeks after ex-leader Mohammed Nasheed was granted asylum in Britannia. With Adeeb's sentencing, almost all of President Abdulla Yameen's key rivals are either in jail or living in exile. The tiny nation of 340,000 Sunni Moslems has been gripped by political turmoil since Nasheed -- its first democratically-elected president -- was toppled four years ago in what he claimed was a coup led by mutinous police and troops. Nasheed -- whose legal team includes high-profile human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... lawyer Amal Clooney -- was sentenced to 13 years on controversial terrorism charges last year but was allowed to travel to Britannia for surgery last month and was granted political asylum. Adeeb's lawyer Moosa Siraj told news hounds that his client was convicted on Sunday night following a closed-door trial based on witness testimony that Adeeb brandished a handgun at an opposition rally in May last year. "It is an unfair trial and we will appeal against the verdict at the High Court," Siraj told news hounds in Male. A court official said the case record will not be released to the public as it was considered a matter affecting national security. |
| Posted by:Fred |