International US Senators call for ex-president’s release

The letter by US Senators John McCain and Jack Reed adds to the growing calls for Nasheed’s release, and warns that the Maldives’ decisions are “having serious adverse consequences on its relationships abroad.”

Kerry had said that democracy in the Maldives had ‘come under threat’; while a senior human rights official from the United Nations had on the same week said the trial against Nasheed was vastly unfair, arbitrary and disproportionate.