Monday roundup: judge shares cartoon of president in chains
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04 Nov 2019, 9:00 AM
The judicial watchdog has placed the criminal court’s chief judge under investigation for alleged ethical misconduct over a cartoon of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and Speaker Mohamed Nasheed in chains.
Judge Ahmed Hailaim shared the cartoon as Victory Day greetings on the criminal court’s Viber group, according to the Judicial Service Commission, which decided to launch the probe at an emergency meeting on Monday morning. The post amounts to a breach of ethical standards if the judge is proven to be responsible, the watchdog noted.
Under the tag ‘That honour and dignity have been stolen today,’ the cartoon sought to tie President Solih and former president Nasheed to a failed coup attempt by a group of Maldivians and Tamil mercenaries on November 3, 1988.
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