{"id":187900,"date":"2018-11-01T23:09:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T03:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=187900"},"modified":"2025-01-16T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:26:24","slug":"maldives-ex-president-ends-exile-criticizes-current-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/01\/maldives-ex-president-ends-exile-criticizes-current-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives ex president ends exile, criticizes current leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MALE, Maldives \u2014 The first democratically elected president of the Maldives returned home Thursday after more than two years in exile to escape a long prison term.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Nasheed travelled by boat parade from the airport island to the national capital, Male, where he was welcomed by his party members and supporters.<\/p>\n

At a news conference, he criticized outgoing President Yameen Abdul Gayoom’s administration as “authoritarian” and said it had put the country under a heavy debt burden.<\/p>\n

Yameen’s government had signed a number of infrastructure projects funded by China, which Nasheed had criticized before as akin to a land grab.<\/p>\n

Nasheed also said there was enough evidence of alleged corruption and misrule against Yameen to prosecute him.<\/p>\n

Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in jail in 2015 after being convicted of terrorism for ordering the arrest of a top judge in 2012 while he was president. His trial was criticized internationally for lack of due process, along with those of many other political opponents jailed by Yameen’s administration.<\/p>\n

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He was offered asylum in Britain when he travelled there for medical treatment on leave from prison. He was recently in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Nasheed’s return follows Yameen’s defeat in the Sept.<\/p>\n

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23 presidential election by Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, the candidate of Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Since Yameen’s defeat, courts have freed or granted bail to some of the jailed officials.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court earlier this week suspended Nasheed’s prison sentence until it reviews his conviction at the request of the prosecutor general, a move to prevent his arrest on arrival.<\/p>\n

Two other people \u2014 an opposition party leader and a former vice-president who was Yameen’s running mate in the 2013 presidential election \u2014 earlier returned from exile.<\/p>\n

Nasheed had been a pro-democracy activist during decades of autocratic rule and was elected president in the country’s first multiparty election in 2008. He gainedinternational<\/i><\/b>\u00a0attention as an environment crusader, holding a Cabinet meeting underwater to highlight the dangers that rising sea levels caused by global warming pose to the archipelago nation composed of coral masses just a few meters (feet) above sea level.<\/p>\n

He resigned the presidency in 2012 amid public protests against his order to arrest the senior judge and lost the 2013 election to Yameen.<\/p>\n

Also on Thursday, president-elect Solih’s nominee was elected speaker with an overwhelming majority, in the first test of strength in the Maldives parliament since the election.<\/p>\n

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Qasim Ibrahim, who is a coalition partner with Solih won the vote 62 votes for him and 16 against in the 85-member parliament. Ibrahim has returned from exile in Germany after Solih’s election victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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