Former Maldivian President in hope of Presidential candidacy for 2018

(FILES) -- A file photo taken on December 27, 2011 shows Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed looking on while attending a military parade in the central Sri Lankan town of Diyatalawa. Maldives ex-leader Nasheed was convicted of a terrorism charge by a criminal court and sentenced to 13 years in prison on March 13, 2015. The three-judge bench unanimously found Nasheed guilty of ordering the arrest of a judge in January 2012 when he was leader of the Indian Ocean archipelago. AFP PHOTO/Ishara S. KODIKARAFormer President of the Republic of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed says he hopes to be the Presidential candidate of his party, the Maldivian Democratic Party, at the 2018 presidential election in his country. Nasheed making a statement at a media briefing in Colombo this morning said that the United Nations working group of arbitrary detention ruled […]

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