Ex vice president’s comments on Nasheed’s transfer to house-imprisonment ‘not true’
The president’s office said that former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s claims were baseless and that of a man who stood “accused of dangerous activities.”
12 Jan 2016, 9:00 AM
The president’s office has hit back at detained former vice president’s claims that President Abdulla Yameen had ordered the commutation of former President Mohamed Nasheed’s 13-year jail term to house-imprisonment.
Ibrahim Muaz Ali, the president’s spokesman, said former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s claims were baseless and that of a man who stood “accused of dangerous activities.”
Nasheed’s return to jail in August last year after an eight-week period of house arrest resulted in the collapse of talks between the government and the opposition and a stalemate that continues today.
Nasheed had been sentenced in March on a terrorism charge in a trial widely criticized for due process violations. At the time, Adeeb was seen as Yameen’s most trusted minister and went on to assume the vice presidency in July.
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