He was sentenced to 19 months for refusing to hand over a mobile phone.
The ruling party's ethics committee has also expelled MP Mohamed Ameeth after he refused to vote against Speaker Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed's no-confidence motion.
The police have ordered the removal of the national flag from former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's office in Malé, citing new regulations that require the home...
The former president's military bodyguards were prevented from accompanying him on a private visit to India, delaying his flight by an hour after the security personnel...
Majority Leader Ahmed Nihan contended that the changes are necessary to ensure public confidence in the military, insisting that the party is working "genuinely with honest...
Zaidul Ameen, a Malé city councillor under arrest on a blackmailing charge, has accused a senior police officer of threatening to keep him in custody until...
Gayoom was planning to launch a series of meetings with PPM members when two police officers visited the former president's office this afternoon and informed his...
Gayoom is preparing to travel across the Maldives to meet supporters whilst the Yameen faction is planning to hold a rally of the "real PPM" in...
Gayoom withdrew support for his brother, Yameen, accusing him of cracking down on dissent and facilitating corruption, and went on to condemn for the first time,...
“I have decided to withdraw my support for this government from this moment on, and I will not support this government in the future,” Gayoom said.
The apex court said it found no “legal basis” to hear Gayoom’s petition, and ruled that the civil court was right to install his half-brother and...
Hussein Rasheed Hassan says the bitter experiences the Jumhooree Party has had in the past prevent them from taking sides in the ongoing PPM dispute or...
A civil court ruling that stripped former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom of his powers as the elected leader of the Progressive Party of Maldives has been...
The elections commission has decided to recognise a faction led by President Abdulla Yameen as the legitimate Progressive Party of Maldives over a rival faction led...
“This is the real PPM. I am repeatedly telling you that those behind President Yameen is the real PPM,” MP Abdul Raheem Abdulla has declared
Excerpts of Gayoom's press conference, in which he defied a civil court order that stripped him of control of the ruling party and ruled out reconciliation...
After a meeting between the PPM parliamentary group and President Abdulla Yameen, Majority Leader Nihan criticised PPM leader Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's decision to appoint his son...
