Nasheed seeks UN intervention to contest presidential elections in 2018

The former President has challenged his conviction under terrorism charges with the organization’s Human Rights Committee

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.”

Comment: Our future is bleak

Amal Clooney and other heavyweights to represent jailed ex President Nasheed