Colonel detained over boat blast challenges administrative detention
Colonel Ahmed ‘Papa’ Fayaz’s lawyer has challenged his administrative detention at the military barracks, seeking an order declaring the senior officer’s continuing detention arbitrary and illegal.
10 Dec 2015, 9:00 AM
Colonel Ahmed ‘Papa’ Fayaz’s lawyer has challenged his administrative detention at the military barracks, seeking an order declaring the senior officer’s continuing detention arbitrary and illegal.
Fayaz, who was in charge of the Special Protection Group tasked with providing security to the president and other high-ranking officials of the state, has been detained at the military barracks since early-October over the September 28 blast on the president’s speedboat.
The government says a bomb targeting President Abdulla Yameen caused the explosion. Fayaz was also in charge of the armoury and the military’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit.
Three soldiers from the EOD unit were among the first suspects arrested in connection to the alleged assassination attempt. The explosives experts are accused of tampering with evidence.
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