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UN Urges Action Maldivian Ex-President's Trial
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01.05.2015
A senior U.N. human rights official said on Friday she had visited jailed former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed for two hours in detention and urged the government to take action on his flawed trial.
Mona Rishmawi, chief of the rule of law, equality and non-discrimination branch of the U.N. Human Rights Office, told a regular U.N. briefing, We kind of started to get signals that even the government recognizes that something went wrong with the process of the trial.
We would like to see this translate into concrete political action and see something happening in this case... What is very clear is that the president still has clemency powers.
She was speaking as supporters of the jailed former president took to the tropical island's streets to call for his release.
Nasheed, the country's first democratically elected leader, was imprisoned in March for his role in ordering the arrest of a senior judge, after a trial that the U.N. high commissioner for human rights said was marked by "flagrant irregularities".
Mona Rishmawi, chief of the rule of law, equality and non-discrimination branch of the U.N. Human Rights Office, told a regular U.N. briefing, We kind of started to get signals that even the government recognizes that something went wrong with the process of the trial.
We would like to see this translate into concrete political action and see something happening in this case... What is very clear is that the president still has clemency powers.
She was speaking as supporters of the jailed former president took to the tropical island's streets to call for his release.
Nasheed, the country's first democratically elected leader, was imprisoned in March for his role in ordering the arrest of a senior judge, after a trial that the U.N. high commissioner for human rights said was marked by "flagrant irregularities".
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