Adeeb refuses injection over fear of assassination plot
Adeeb’s family said the prisons authority’s push to give him the injection ostensibly for a CT scan was “suspicious” because his lawyers were previously tipped off to an alleged plot to assassinate the 35-year-old in custody.
15 Oct 2017, 9:00 AM
The prisons authority has stopped medical treatment for Ahmed Adeeb after his wife refused to sign a consent form for administering an injection, the jailed former vice president’s family has alleged.
Adeeb’s family said in a statement Sunday morning that the Maldives Correctional Services push to give him the injection ostensibly for a CT scan was “suspicious” because his lawyers were previously tipped off to an alleged plot to assassinate the 35-year-old in custody.
“Doctors asked Adeeb to get screening for cancer. That was in November 2015,” the family said. “The CT scan that the [MCS] is trying to get nearly two after that date is not related to screening for cancer.”
The authorities have refused to grant Adeeb medical leave to travel overseas for the treatment of glaucoma, kidney stones and internal cysts. His family say they fear for his life because a sibling had died after the discovery of a cancerous cyst.
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