MP Moosa Manik files torture complaint against former President Gayoom
21 Oct 2010, 1:05 PM
Azra Naseem
MP Moosa Manik, parliamentary group leader of ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), has filed a complaint against former President Maumoom Abdul Gayoom alleging mental and physical torture, reports Miadhu.
Manik’s complaint lodged at the Maldives Police Service, also claims that the former regime of Gayoom oppressed him financially.
According to the Miadhu report, Manik alleges that he was falsely imprisoned and tortured physically and mentally under the direct order of Gayoom in 1982.
False allegations, he told Miadhu, were made against him of assisting his brother Ibrahim Manik in a rebellion against Gayoom.
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