Amal Clooney
Ambassador to Sri Lanka stands by threat to detain Nasheed
The ambassador-designate’s remarks prompted the opposition leader’s high-profile counsel Amal Clooney to warn that “any attempt by a Maldivian diplomat to detain President Nasheed in Sri Lanka would constitute a violation of international law as well as Sri Lankan criminal law.”
18 Sep 2017, 9:00 AM
TVM launches English talk show to counter Nasheed’s media blitz
Top government officials appeared last night in the Maldives public broadcaster’s first-ever English talk show to dismiss former President Mohamed Nasheed’s damning comments on rising terrorist recruitment and call for targeted sanctions.
28 Jan 2016, 9:00 AM
Nasheed’s media blitz: IS recruitment, political repression, and 2018 election
In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour alongside his celebrity lawyer Amal Clooney, the 48-year-old opposition leader said he will challenge President Abdulla Yameen in the 2018 presidential election. “I think I will have to fight the next election. It’s unfinished business. Everything seems to be very half-baked,” he said.
27 Jan 2016, 9:00 AM
UN panel rejected government’s appeal of Nasheed ruling
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 the press in London yesterday.
26 Jan 2016, 9:00 AM
“I will go back to the Maldives”: Nasheed calls for escalating pressure with sanctions
Flanked by his heavyweight lawyers Jared Genser, Amal Clooney, and Ben Emmerson, the opposition leader stressed that his temporary release does not signal an end to the “repression” of President Abdulla Yameen’s administration. Nasheed said Yameen only felt “compelled to act” when faced with the threat of sanctions.
25 Jan 2016, 9:00 AM
Nasheed to meet UK press on Monday
“In this press conference, President Nasheed and his lawyers will assess the political situation in the Maldives and highlight the human rights abuses still ongoing in a country most people associate with tropical paradise,” the former president’s international legal team said in a press statement today.
21 Jan 2016, 9:00 AM
Nasheed’s lawyers win US Congress support for Maldives sanctions
In her first-ever interview with a US television network, Mohamed Nasheed’s heavyweight human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, wife of actor George, said she had won support for the introduction of a congressional resolution calling for sanctions against members of the Maldives’ current regime until they free her client.
17 Jan 2016, 9:00 AM
Senator McCain ‘standing for human rights in the Maldives’
Jailed former President Mohamed Nasheed’s international lawyers Jared Genser and Amal Clooney met with US Senator John McCain yesterday as their campaign seeking targeted sanctions to secure the opposition leader’s release intensifies.
14 Jan 2016, 9:00 AM
Ten Questions for the Government of the Maldives
While it is unsurprising that the Government of the Maldives wishes to have a fact-free conversation about the rapidly deteriorating human-rights situation in the country, the international community will not be persuaded by mere repetition of the same claims lacking foundation in law or evidence, writes Jared Genser, legal counsel to former president Nasheed
17 Oct 2015, 9:00 AM
Lawyers step up campaign for Nasheed’s release, call for sanctions
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 the opposition leader’s conviction in March was politically motivated and breached international law. The heavyweight lawyers are seeking “travel bans and targeted financial sanctions against Maldivian government officials who have been implicated in serious human rights abuses.”
06 Oct 2015, 9:00 AM
Lawyers defend call for targeted sanctions to secure Nasheed’s release
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 said his case is “emblematic of a broader, brutal crackdown on democracy and human rights involving not only the former president, but also large parts of the population.”
25 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
‘We worry for his safety’: Nasheed’s daughter at UN Human Rights Council
“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 of the Maldives. Although I know him as my tenacious and also brilliant father, who has tirelessly risked the majority of his life trying to establish basic human rights in our country,” said Meera Laila Nasheed at the UN Human Rights Council yesterday.
25 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
Cherie Blair speaks out against sanctions on the Maldives
Blair said sanctions must not be used over the imprisonment of a single individual, former President Mohamed Nasheed. In response, his lawyers said they will pursue targeted sanctions against individual abusers because of the numerous political prisoners in the Maldives.
16 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
Nasheed must appeal at Supreme Court, says President Yameen
The government has done all it could to ensure former President Mohamed Nasheed’s right to appeal his conviction on terrorism charges, President Abdulla Yameen said last night, and advised the opposition leader to file an appeal at the Supreme Court after the High Court rejected the state’s appeal of his 13-year jail sentence.
13 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
Government assures investigation of alleged bugging of ex-president’s meeting with lawyers
Following international media coverage of the alleged secret surveillance, the prisons authority said in a statement – posted in English on Twitter by the foreign ministry yesterday – that the “suggestion that the Maldives Correctional Services or the government is responsible for this infringement is wholeheartedly rejected.”
12 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
Government ‘spied’ on Nasheed’s meeting with lawyers Amal Clooney, Jared Genser
Former President Mohamed Nasheed’s high-profile international lawyers Amal Clooney and Jared Genser have alleged that the government spied on their meeting with the opposition leader at the high-security Maafushi prison this morning.
10 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
Lawyers will pursue targeted sanctions to secure Nasheed’s release: Amal Clooney
A ruling by the UN working group of arbitrary detention declaring former President Mohamed Nasheed’s imprisonment unlawful would be an “authoritative judgment” that could pave the way for targeted sanctions, asset freezes, and travel bans, the opposition leader’s high-profile lawyers Amal Clooney and Jared Genser told the press today.
10 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
High Court rejects state’s appeal of Nasheed’s conviction
Following a preliminary hearing held yesterday to decide whether to proceed with the appeal, the three-judge panel ruled unanimously that it could not accept the case because it was not filed by Nasheed.
10 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
Nasheed’s lawyer Jared Genser arrives in Maldives
Speaking to reporters upon arriving at the international airport this afternoon, Genser expressed confidence that the UN working group will issue a ruling in October declaring Nasheed’s 13-year jail sentence arbitrary and unlawful. Genser traveled from the airport to the Maafushi prison to visit Nasheed along with his colleague Amal Clooney.
09 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
Court hears state’s appeal of Nasheed’s terrorism conviction
At a preliminary hearing to determine if the high court should accept the state’s appeal of terrorism conviction against Nasheed, prosecutors said the state is seeking a review of the proceedings at the lower court to ensure that his constitutional rights were not violated and that the trial was free and fair.
09 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
