Maldives Issues Arrest Warrant For Ex-president Nasheed
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published August 31, 2016 | 05:14 PM
COLOMBO,(APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News -31st Augst,2016) : The Maldives government said Wednesday it was seeking the arrest of former president Mohamed Nasheed for failing to return to the archipelago to complete a prison sentence after receiving medical treatment in Britain.
Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically-elected leader, recently won political asylum in Britain after being granted permission to travel there for treatment while serving a 13-year sentence for a terror-related offence. "A court order (has been) issued for arrest of former president Mohamed Nasheed," the government said in a statement, issued after Nasheed flew to neighbouring Sri Lanka.
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