Ex-MP Nazim lodges complaint over mistreatment
Former ruling party MP Ahmed Nazim has lodged a complaint with the human rights watchdog over alleged mistreatment in state custody.
15 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
Former ruling party MP Ahmed Nazim has lodged a complaint with the human rights watchdog over alleged mistreatment by prisons officers in state custody.
Nazim’s family said the mistreatment occurred on July 12, soon after he was discharged from hospital where he had received treatment for back pain for five days.
The former MP was made to stand for three hours in a dirty holding cell in Malé, and was not provided with food to break his fast or diabetic medicine, the family said in a statement.
Nazim, a former close associate of President Abdulla Yameen, was sentenced to life in prison by the Supreme Court on corruption charges.
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