US, UK condemn Nazim’s 1000-day detention
Maldives former defence minister was found guilty of weapons smuggling in 2015 and sentenced to 11 years in prison, but a UN rights panel found he was not afforded a fair trial.
08 Nov 2017, 9:00 AM
The detention of former Maldives defence minister Mohamed Nazim, who has been behind bars for 1,000 days, has been condemned by the US and the UK.
Nazim was found guilty of weapons smuggling in 2015 and sentenced to 11 years in prison. A UN rights panel found that Nazim was not afforded a fair trial and backed the retired colonel’s assertion that the police had framed him in the troubled honeymoon destination.
On Tuesday, the US and UK’s top diplomats in Colombo decried Nazim’s incarceration, taking to Twitter to express their concerns after his family denounced the justice system.
“1000 days into his ordeal, when will Colonel Nazim benefit from the impartial and fair application of evidence-based justice and rule of law?” asked US Ambassador Atul Keshap.
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