Mahloof handed six months jail sentence
Today’s verdict comes a week after the lawmaker was sentenced to four months and 24 days in prison on a separate count of obstructing police duty. The MUO spokesman was found guilty of scaling barricades set up near the local market and trying to enter the restricted Republic Square.
25 Jul 2016, 9:00 AM
MP Ahmed Mahloof, spokesman of the Maldives United Opposition, has been convicted of obstructing police duty and handed a jail sentence of six months.
Today’s verdict comes a week after the lawmaker was sentenced to four months and 24 days in prison on a separate count of obstructing police duty.
The criminal court found Mahloof guilty of scaling barricades set up near the local market and trying to enter the restricted Republic Square during an opposition protest on the night of March 25, 2015.
Mahloof remains a lawmaker despite the combined jail terms of nearly 11 months. A sitting MP can only be stripped of his seat if he is sentenced to more than one year in prison.
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