Government assures investigation of alleged bugging of ex-president’s meeting with lawyers
Following international media coverage of the alleged secret surveillance, the prisons authority said in a statement – posted in English on Twitter by the foreign ministry yesterday – that the “suggestion that the Maldives Correctional Services or the government is responsible for this infringement is wholeheartedly rejected.”
12 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
The government has assured that allegations of spying on former President Mohamed Nasheed’s meeting with his high-profile international lawyers Amal Clooney and Jared Genser will be “investigated to the fullest extent.”
Genser told the press on Thursday that the pair’s meeting with Nasheed at the high-security Maafushi prison earlier in the day was “bugged” as it was revealed that government officials were aware of the “sensitive conversation”.
Shortly after the meeting, Nasheed’s wife, Laila Ali, received a phone call from a friend “who had spoken to a government official and asked her if the information that they had just heard was in fact accurate,” Genser explained.
Laila’s friend “indicated in fact that [the information] came from Maafushi prison and the conservation that President Nasheed had just had with counsel,” he added.
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