Five arrested for obstruction, as police clear sit down protests
21 Oct 2013, 2:35 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
Police have arrested five men for allegedly obstructing police while they were trying to open to the roads closed by Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) supporters in protest over the cancellation of presidential elections by police on Saturday.
In a statement police said they had opened all the roads that were closed by the MDP.
Police said that they had previously warned people who closed the roads to refrain from acting in a way that would disrupt transportation and people who walked on the roads.
Police noted that in some of the areas people were cooperative and removed the things they had used to block the roads after being warned.
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