Ex-president’s brother sues prisons authority over visitation rights
Nazim Sattar filed the case at the civil court today contending that the Maldives Correctional Services had arbitrarily reversed its previous decision to allow the former president’s siblings to visit him once a week at the Maafushi prison.
29 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
Ahmed Nazim Abdul Sattar, younger brother of jailed former President Mohamed Nasheed, has sued the prisons authority for refusing to grant visitation rights to siblings.
Nazim filed the case at the civil court today contending that the Maldives Correctional Services (MCS) had arbitrarily reversed its previous decision to allow the former president’s siblings to visit him once a week at the Maafushi prison.
“Suddenly in September, MCS said we cannot meet our brother,” Nazim told The Maldives Independent. The MCS does not have regulations on visitation rights, he added.
“Even if they have one, only a 2004 regulation has been made publicly available. That should be invalid now given the enactment of the 2008 constitution,” he said.
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