Maldives’ former President Mohammed Nasheed has appealed to President Abdulla Yameen to reduce his 13-year jail imprisonment under the country’s anti-terrorism laws.
In a letter sent to the President on Monday, lawyer Hassan latheef noted that the clemency law gives Yameen the “full power and discretion” to reduce the sentence based on the person’s age, health, treatment currently undergoing, status and circumstance, or from a humanitarian perspective. Nasheed, the country’s first democratically elected leader who was arrested on
February 22 over the detention of a judge in 2012, was charged under the Anti- Terrorism Act 1990 in a criminal court hearing late on March 13.