High Court extends house arrest of opposition leaders charged with bribery and treason
03 Jul 2010, 3:35 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
In response to an appeal by police regarding People’s Alliance party leader MP Yameen Adul Gayoom and Jumhooree Party leader MP Gasim ‘Buruma’ Ibrahim, the High Court of Maldives has extended their house arrest to 15 days.
The Criminal Court had earlier ruled their house arrest was to be for three days.
The High Court judge said they were charged with treason and bribery, and 15 days was not a lengthy period to investigate those sort of crimes.
Police were concerned that if the men were kept in house arrest they could potentially disrupt the investigation and the gathering of information from witnesses.
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