President pardons former MP Abdulla Jabir
20 Jul 2014, 10:47 AM
Zaheena Rasheed
President Abdulla Yameen on Wednesday pardoned former opposition MP Abdulla Jabir who was serving a one-year jail term for refusal to provide urine.
The former Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) MP and tourism tycoon was pardoned under powers granted to the president by the Clemency Act.
Jabir was arrested during a police raid on Hondaidhoo Island in November 2012. The police claimed they found large amounts of narcotics and drugs.
The ten individuals arrested from Hondaidhoo also include former MDP MP Hamid Abdul Ghafoor and former President Mohamed Nasheed’s Special Envoy Ibrahim Hussein Zaki.
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