Nasheed will return ‘a free man’
The MDP urged supporters to gather in Malé on November 1 to welcome its exiled leader.
10 Oct 2018, 9:00 AM
Former president Mohamed Nasheed will return to the Maldives as a free man despite his “fugitive” status, the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party insisted Tuesday.
At a press briefing, MDP chairman Hassan Latheef urged supporters from across the country to converge in the capital to welcome the exiled opposition leader.
“I have full certainty, God willing, that president Nasheed will come to the Maldives on 1 November as a free man, he will not be coming in a manner that would allow any Maldivian state institution to touch him,” MDP chairman Hassan Latheef told reporters.
He dismissed fears that Nasheed would be taken back to prison to serve his 13-year jail sentence. The party is working towards his release, Latheef said.
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