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Amnesty International on Thursday slammed the deteriorating human rights situation in the Maldives and termed the trial of former president Mohamed Nasheed “a sham”.
Nasheed was sentenced on terrorism charges to 13 years in prison in March.
“Mohamed Nasheed’s imprisonment came after a sham trial, but he is far from the only one locked up on trumped-up charges and after unfair trials. It is disturbing how far the Maldives government has co-opted the judiciary as a tool to cement its own holds on power,” said Abbas Faiz, Amnesty’s Maldives Researcher, at a media interaction here
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