Nasheed seeks UN intervention to contest presidential elections in 2018

The founding leader of the main opposition MDP, currently in exile in the UK, was constitutionally disqualified from holding a political office after being sentenced for 13 years under terrorism charges in 2015.

The opposition has called the terrorism charges ‘bogus’ and ‘politically motivated’.

Jared Genser, Nasheed’s international counsel said, “We have filed our complaint before the Human Rights Committee because any disqualification from running for office or leading a political party emanating from what has been found to be an arbitrary detention by an independent and impartial international tribunal is fruit of the poisonous tree and hence null and void by the standards of international law.”