President grants clemency to self-exiled ‘Sandhaanu’ Luthfy
12 Apr 2010, 6:39 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
President Mohamed Nasheed has granted clemency to Ibrahim Moosa ‘Sandhaanu’ Luthfy, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for writing against the former government.
Luthfy escaped imprisonment by the former government when he was taken to Sri Lanka for medical treatment in May 2005. He undertook self-exile in Switzerland where he was supported by the United Nations and the Swiss government.
Press Secretary for the President Mohamed Zuhair said Luthfy was a man who was “on the front line” when the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) started its work “to reform the government.”
Zuhair said that according to the new constitution, “freedom of expression is not illegal.”
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