Jailed Maldives ex-president to seek surgery in UK

AFP, MALÉ, Maldives: Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, who was jailed for 13 years following a controversial trial last year, has been granted permission to travel to Britain for surgery, the Maldives government said Saturday.
“The government of Maldives has granted permission to former president Nasheed to travel to the United Kingdom to undergo surgery, at his request,” the foreign ministry said on its official Twitter account.
Nasheed, who became the country’s first democratically elected leader in 2008, has previously complained of a spinal cord injury and his lawyers have demanded for months that he be allowed specialist treatment abroad.
The 48-year-old opposition leader was confined to jail on a small prison island near the capital Male in March 2015 on terror charges relating to the arrest of an allegedly corrupt judge in 2012, when he was still in power.

 

Jailed Maldives ex-president to seek surgery in UK

AFP, MAL, Maldives: Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, who was jailed for 13 years following a controversial trial last year, has been granted permission to travel to Britain for surgery, the Maldives government said Saturday. The government of Maldives has granted permission to former president Nasheed to travel to the United Kingdom to undergo surgery, at his request, the foreign ministry said on its official Twitter account. Nasheed, who became the countrys first democratically elected leader in 2008, has previously complained of a spinal cord injury and his lawyers have demanded for months that he be allowed specialist treatment abroad. The 48-year-old opposition leader was confined to jail on a small prison island near the capital Male in March 2015 on terror charges relating to the arrest of an allegedly corrupt judge in 2012, when he was still in power.