Nasheed asks High Court for opportunity to consult lawyers ahead of appeal hearings
The opposition leader has asked the court to send him the case documents and to provide sufficient time to review the PG’s appeal with his legal counsel, including his high-profile international lawyers, Amal Clooney and Jared Genser, who are due to arrive in the Maldives tomorrow.
06 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
Former President Mohamed Nasheed has asked the High Court for an opportunity to consult with lawyers ahead of preliminary hearings of the prosecutor general’s (PG) appeal of his conviction on terrorism charges.
The office of the former president explained in a statement today that the High Court had informed Nasheed in a letter sent on September 2 that he could participate in the hearings as “legal points made by President Nasheed were also included by the PG’s appeal.” The hearings are to be held to determine whether the court will hear the case.
The High Court asked for a decision before 2:00pm today, but the statement noted that the former president had only 24 hours to reply to the letter as the two days after it was delivered fell on the weekend.
Nasheed was taken back to the high-security Maafushi jail on August 23 after two months under house arrest, prompting the UN human rights chief as well as the American and British governments to renew calls for his release.
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