Nasheed’s lawyers, including Amal Clooney, to visit Maldives in September
The international legal team representing former President Mohamed Nasheed, including Amal Clooney, are set to visit the Maldives in early September.
18 Aug 2015, 9:00 AM
The international legal team representing former President Mohamed Nasheed, now under house arrest on a terrorism charge, are set to visit the Maldives in early September.
Three-month visas for the three heavyweight human rights lawyers, were approved on Monday, weeks after the Maldives refused to issue a work visa for lawyer Jared Genser, the founder of the renowned campaign group for political prisoners Freedom Now
Other members of the team are Amal Clooney, who has advised the UN and is the wife of Hollywood actor George Clooney, and Ben Emmerson, a UN rights chief on counter-terrorism and human rights.
The three helped the opposition leader file a petition with the UN working group on arbitrary detention, requesting a judgment declaring Nasheed’s 13-year jail term on terrorism charges arbitrary and illegal.
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