Nasheed calls on PG to respect Judge Abdulla’s decision on Thinadhoo arson suspects, says military detention “wrong”
23 Nov 2014, 5:06 PM
Zaheena Rasheed
Opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed has called on the prosecutor general to respect Criminal Court Chief Judge Abdulla Mohamed’s decision to throw out terrorism charges against 89 opposition supporters.
The former president also said that the military’s detention of the judge during his tenure was “wrong”.
Judge Abdulla dismissed the Thinadhoo cases on Saturday after state prosecutors failed to attend a hearing scheduled for 10am. Last week he ordered 55 of the 89 defendants be held in detention pending the outcome of the trials, claiming the accused were intimidating witnesses. All have been released.
Prosecutor General Muhthaz Muhsin has resubmitted the cases to the Criminal Court today.
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