No obstacle for Nasheed’s involvement in talks, says MDP
28 May 2015, 7:43 PM
The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) insists that there is no obstacle for former President Mohamed Nasheed to represent the main opposition party in official talks with the government.
The government had rejected Nasheed as the party’s representative on the grounds that the opposition leader is serving a 13-year jail sentence.
In a letter to President Abdulla Yameen, the MDP said that Nasheed was not sentenced to be “locked up in jail in isolation, unable to meet anyone.”
The government had facilitated meetings with meetings with Nasheed for representatives from the UN and the Commonwealth after his conviction in March, the party noted.
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