Amnesty International submits Colonel Nazim’s case to UN rights panel
Amnesty International has petitioned the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of former Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim’s case, seeking a judgment declaring his imprisonment illegal.
14 Feb 2016, 9:00 AM
Amnesty International has petitioned the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of former Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim’s case, seeking a judgment declaring his imprisonment illegal.
Abbas Faiz, Amnesty International’s South Asia specialist, confirmed the submission to the specialised UN agency in a tweet yesterday.
“We are doing this because we do not believe justice can be secured from the Maldivian court system. But the UN is an international organization that Maldives is party to and if the government disregards their decisions it shows that they do not respect international norms and standards,” Nazim’s brother Adam Azim told The Maldives Independent.
Nazim was found guilty of weapons smuggling and sentenced to 11 years in prison in March last year. The retired colonel has maintained that he was framed by rogue police officers acting on the orders of then-Tourism Minister Ahmed Adeeb.
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