Adeeb freed from house arrest
The former vice president served a 15-day sentence for contempt of court.
15 Jul 2019, 9:00 AM
Former vice president Ahmed Adeeb was freed from house arrest on Sunday after completing a 15-day sentence for contempt of court.
After three years in prison, Adeeb was transferred to house arrest last November in the wake of former president Abdulla Yameen’s defeat in the presidential election. By late May, his 33-year jail sentence on terrorism and corruption charges were wiped out by the appeal courts, citing political influence over his trials.
Ahmed Naseem, a spokesman from Maldives Correctional Service, told the Maldives Independent that Adeeb was no longer under custody. There were no more sentences to serve, he noted.
The contempt of court sentence against Adeeb was passed during a secret hearing in January 2018.
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