Home minister to decide on extension of Nasheed’s house arrest
“We have forwarded all of Nasheed’s medical records and the doctors recommendations to the home minister. He now will decide on extension of house arrest,” Commissioner of Prisons Mohamed Husham told The Maldives Independent today.
22 Aug 2015, 9:00 AM
Home minister Umar Naseer will decide on extending former president Mohamed Nasheed’s house arrest next week after an approved eight week period expired yesterday.
“We have forwarded all of Nasheed’s medical records and the doctor’s recommendations to the home minister. He now will decide on extension of house arrest,” Commissioner of Prisons Mohamed Husham told The Maldives Independent today.
Contrary to media reports, the attorney general’s office said last week that the opposition leader’s 13-year jail sentence has not been commuted to house arrest.
Nasheed’s international lawyer Jared Genser told reporters in Colombo on July 24 that the government had “permanently moved President Nasheed to house arrest for the balance of his 13-year term in prison.”
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