Prosecutor General will imprison Nasheed before elections, promises PPM
25 Jun 2012, 5:35 PM
Daniel Bosley
Deputy leader of the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) Umar Naseer has expressed his confidence that the Prosecutor General’s (PG) investigation into charges against former President Mohamed Nasheed will see his imprisonment before the scheduled elections in July 2013.
“We will make sure that the Maldivian state does this. We will not let him go; the leader who unlawfully ordered the police and military to kidnap a judge and detain him for 22 days will be brought to justice,” local paper Haveeru reported Naseer as having said.
Naseer went on to say that, after the investigations of the police and the Human Rights Commission of Maldives (HRCM), the pressure was now on the PG.
“He is an independent person. I hope he will prosecute this case. He has said that he will. I have no doubt that he will,” Naseer said.
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