Criminal court rejects case challenging legality of Nasheed’s re-imprisonment
Nasheed’s lawyers initially filed the case a day after he was taken back to Maafushi prison, requesting the court to declare the transfer “illegal and arbitrary” as the Maldives Correctional Services (MCS) had provided a document showing that the 13-year jail sentence was commuted to house arrest.
09 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
A panel of judges at the criminal court has rejected a case filed by former President Mohamed Nasheed’s legal team challenging the legality of his re-imprisonment on August 23 after two months under house arrest.
Nasheed’s lawyers initially filed the case a day after he was taken back to Maafushi prison, requesting the court to declare the transfer “illegal and arbitrary” as the Maldives Correctional Services (MCS) had provided a document showing that the 13-year jail sentence was commuted to house arrest.
The government, however, denied commuting Nasheed’s sentence and the criminal court’s registrar refused to accept the case.
Referring to the prisons and parole law, acting registrar Mohamed Ibrahim informed lawyers that the MCS is “mandated to enforce jail sentences issued by a court of law.”
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