Maldives urged to ‘end arbitrary actions targeting judges’

The International Commission of Jurists condemned today “arbitrary and politically motivated actions against judges” in the Maldives, shining the spotlight on the arrest of a magistrate judge and the abrupt transfer of two top judges in the past year.

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The government has “dealt another blow to the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law” with the judge’s arrest, said ICJ’s Asia Director Sam Zarifi. The senior judge of the Maamigili magistrate court is accused of forging a warrant to arrest President Abdulla Yameen on corruption charges.

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