The foreign ministry said it "does not agree" with the UN's finding that Mohamed Nazim was detained illegally.
Mahloof's petition is the fourth from a high-profile Maldivian politician to come before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention since early 2015. In September, the...
The supreme court has upheld former President Mohamed Nasheed's 13-year jail sentence on charges of terrorism.
A local human rights NGO has petitioned the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Sheikh Imran Abdulla's behalf, requesting a judgment declaring the Adhaalath Party...
Amnesty International has petitioned the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of former Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim's case, seeking a judgment declaring his imprisonment illegal.
A UN human rights panel rejected the government's appeal of its judgment declaring former President Mohamed Nasheed's imprisonment illegal, the opposition leader's lawyer Jared Genser told...
After appealing former President Mohamed Nasheed's 13-year sentence at the Supreme Court this week, the opposition leader's lawyers are now petitioning the lower courts to secure...
"The government has maintained the position that the opinion of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is one that should be considered by the Supreme...
MP Ahmed Nihan, PPM parliamentary group leader, meanwhile called Nasheed's high-profile lawyers Jared Genser and Amal Clooney "enemies of the state" after the pair launched a...
Jared Genser, Amal Clooney, and Nasheed's wife, Laila Ali, briefed the British press yesterday on the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s (WGAD) opinion, which said...
"We attempted to exhaust local remedies from the Maldivian judiciary, but it seems that the courts have absconded from trial by refusing to hold hearings," Nazim's...
Reiterating calls for targeted sanctions against Maldivian government officials if Nasheed is not released, the opposition leader's international lawyers Amal Clooney, Jared Genser, and Ben Emmerson...
"My father, Mohamed Nasheed, former president of Maldives, was imprisoned by the Maldivian government on fabricated charges of 'terrorism.' He is the first democratically elected president...
The case of the former President Mohamed Naseed is in danger of being manipulated for purely political ends. It is therefore important that we remind ourselves...
The Maldivian government, in a response to the UN working group on arbitrary detention today, contended a terrorism conviction against former president Mohamed Nasheed was not...
