Maldives is back to its dark past.

           
. MadamLaila told the press that she has never been engaged in politics.

.Maldives is back to its dark past. 

.Gayooms are back in power and my husband is back in jail.

.leadership of the entire political opposition is either in jail,

“But now my husband has been silenced, I feel compelled to speak out on his behalf. And every time I speak to him, he tells me the same thing: 

This isn’t only about him. It’s not only about his sentence. It’s not only about his predicament,” she said.

“The leadership of the entire political opposition is either in jail, or under threat. And there are some 1,700 other people facing serious charges for their non-violent activism.”

Laila said the Maldives has “returned to its dark past” with the family of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom back in power. A journalist disappeared last year, she noted, and a member of Nasheed’s legal team was stabbed in broad daylight last month.

Nasheed was jailed more than a dozen times during Gayoom’s 30-year reign.

“The regime has tried to break him so many times. But they’ve never succeeded. And I’m confident they won’t succeed this time,”