Amnesty to investigate reports of Nazim’s “arbitrary” detention
14 Feb 2015, 6:20 PM
Daniel Bosley
Amnesty International have announced they will be looking into the detention of former defence minister Colonel (retired) Mohamed Nazim.
“Amnesty International is investigating reports of arbitrary arrest of former defence minister, Mohamed Nazim, and his detention condition,” tweeted the NGO’s South Asia Specialist Abbas Faiz.
Nazim was arrested on February 10 and remanded in police custody for 15 days on charge related to illegal weapons allegedly discovered in his home on January 18.
A police statement issued the following day claimed to have found documents in a pen drive confiscated from Nazim’s house during a midnight raid on January 18 suggesting he “was plotting to physically harm senior Maldivian state officials.”
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