Nasheed’s lawyers only allowed four visits since August
Lawyers said they had been allowed to visit the opposition leader only four times since his re-imprisonment in August. A meeting scheduled for November 19 has been rescheduled for November 28, she added.
23 Nov 2015, 9:00 AM
Former President Mohamed Nasheed’s lawyers have been blocked from prison visits ahead of a mass opposition protest scheduled for Friday.
Complaining over infrequent access, lawyer Safa Shareef said lawyers had been allowed to visit the opposition leader only four times since his re-imprisonment in August. A meeting scheduled for November 19 has been rescheduled for November 28, she added.
Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in jail on a terrorism charge. The UN’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has since ruled his imprisonment arbitrary and illegal. The government has rejected the ruling, saying only the Supreme Court can release the opposition leader.
An appeal is before the apex court, but it has not made a decision on hearing the appeal.
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