High Court concludes city council’s appeal into ownership of MDP protest site
14 Feb 2013, 7:52 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The High Court on February 13 concluded an appeal by Male’ City Council (MCC) over the ownership of the ‘Usfasgandu’ land plot in the capital, leased to the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP).
The court is expected to rule on the appeal during the next hearing of the trial, which has yet to be scheduled.
The council’s High Court appeal followed a case filed by the Housing Ministry at the Civil Court ordering the MCC to hand over the land in seven days. The plot of land has been used by the MDP as a base for protests in Male’ for much of last year.
Lawyers from the Attorney General’s told the court that the MCC had given the land to a political party that was supposed to be used for social and leisure purposes.
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