{"id":306165,"date":"2018-11-27T06:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T06:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306165"},"modified":"2018-11-27T06:43:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T06:43:02","slug":"maldives-supreme-court-cancels-former-president-nasheeds-13-year-jail-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maldives-supreme-court-cancels-former-president-nasheeds-13-year-jail-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives\u2019 Supreme Court cancels former President Nasheed\u2019s 13-year jail sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306166 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/nasheed-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nasheed-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nasheed-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nasheed-601x420.jpg 601w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nasheed.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Maldives Supreme Court on November 26\u00a0has\u00a0canceled former President Mohamed Nasheed&#8217;s 13-year jail sentence and terrorism conviction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top Court said that Nasheed had been \u201cwrongfully charged\u201d and that he should not have been convicted in the 2015 trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The apex court further said that Nasheed\u2019s conviction is \u201cpolitically motivated\u201d and the criminal court should not have proceeded to trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Following the judgment, Mr. Nasheed reportedly said it made evident that he was put on trial \u201cby the influence of\u201d former President Abdulla Yameen. \u201cIt is clear that my political career is not over,\u201d he further added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former President Nasheed pulled out of the presidential race earlier this year after the Election Commission barred him from contesting, citing his controversial 2015 conviction for detaining Maldives Criminal Court chief judge Abdulla Ghazee during his presidential term in 2012.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maldives Supreme Court on November 26\u00a0has\u00a0canceled former President Mohamed Nasheed&#8217;s 13-year jail sentence and terrorism conviction. The top Court said that Nasheed had been \u201cwrongfully charged\u201d and that he should not have been convicted in the 2015 trial. The apex court further said that Nasheed\u2019s conviction is \u201cpolitically motivated\u201d and the criminal court should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[9917,9916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306167,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306165\/revisions\/306167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}