A UN human rights panel rejected the government's appeal of its judgment declaring former President Mohamed Nasheed's imprisonment illegal, the opposition leader's lawyer Jared Genser told...
Responding to allegations of pitching the government and the opposition, Cadman writes: "Supporters of the former President need to make as much noise in public and...
Toby Cadman, the barrister who defended the jailing of former President Mohamed Nasheed at the UN on the Maldivian government’s behalf, first approached the opposition leader’s...
While it is unsurprising that the Government of the Maldives wishes to have a fact-free conversation about the rapidly deteriorating human-rights situation in the country, the...
Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon suggested that the celebrity status of Nasheed's lawyers has a "very big impact" on international media coverage and shapes international opinion on...
While the opinion of the WGAD is a helpful international contribution, it is the Supreme Court that ought, in accordance with the rule of law, have...
After months of street protests, hundreds of arrests, and failed talks, the opposition and civil society groups hope a UN opinion on Nasheed's imprisonment will provide...
The case of the former President Mohamed Naseed is in danger of being manipulated for purely political ends. It is therefore important that we remind ourselves...
Following international media coverage of the alleged secret surveillance, the prisons authority said in a statement - posted in English on Twitter by the foreign ministry...
In such a politically charged case, media reporting can take a sensationalist and selective approach, writes Toby Cadman. "As with all cases, there are two sides...
The Maldivian government, in a response to the UN working group on arbitrary detention today, contended a terrorism conviction against former president Mohamed Nasheed was not...
