Ex-president’s lawyer denounces claim stabbing provoked by personal matter
Mahfooz Saeed, a member of former President Mohamed Nasheed’s legal team, has denounced a government claim that his stabbing was provoked by a dispute over legal work not related to the jailed opposition leader’s case.
26 Oct 2015, 9:00 AM
Mahfooz Saeed, a member of former President Mohamed Nasheed’s legal team, has denounced a government claim that his stabbing was provoked by a dispute over legal work not related to the jailed opposition leader’s case.
The 26-year-old was stabbed in the head on September 4. A knife was lodged three and a half inches deep above his left ear. He narrowly survived the life-threatening attack.
“I firmly assert that this attack does not relate to any of my personal matters. I have never received death threats because of my work as a lawyer,” Mahfooz said in a statement.
The stabbing came days before Nasheed’s high-profile international lawyers, Jared Genser and Amal Clooney, arrived in the Maldives.
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