25th August 2010, Male’, Maldives, Maldivestoday.com

Today the civil court of Maldives made a judgement that Hon. Abdulla Yameen, MP for Mulaku Constituency was held captive by the armed forces was in violation of his rights and in violation of the the article 14, 91, 12, 62, 03, 73, 54 and 64 of the Maldivian constitution.

Hon. Qasim Ibrahim and Hon. Abdulla Yameen was arrested, detained and held captive by the police and armed forces during late June and early July. They were detained and help captive multi times during the aftermath of resignation of Maldives cabinet en masse on 28th of June. The resigned Minister’s created chaos in the streets of Male’, and attacked opposition politician residences. The immature and irresponsible action of Nasheed’s government was condemned by the international community for not upholding democratic values and arbitrary arrest of opposition politicians and undermining the parliament.

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