Freed MP urges government to release opposition leaders
All opposition leaders, aside from former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, are either in prison or exile as the Maldives prepares for this year’s presidential polls.
25 Jan 2018, 9:00 AM
Maldivians are “suffering unjustly for their political work,” said MP Faris Maumoon following his release from custody, urging the government to free key opposition figures.
Faris, who was in custody for six months while on trial for bribery, was given a conditional release on Thursday by the Criminal Court.
The court ordered his release after lawyers appealed for permission to have an independent third party analyse forensic evidence related to Faris’s phone.
Speaking outside the court, Faris told reporters there were others who were in the same situation he had been in.
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