Former President Mohamed Nasheed’s lawyer Hassan Latheef
has revealed that he had requested the country’s apex court to quash the
Criminal Court’s ruling against his client and restore his right to
contest elections.
Speaking on RaajjeTV’s ‘Fala Surukhee’ programme, Wednesday night, Hassan Latheef highlighted that the Supreme Court had only two options left in Nasheed’s case; upholding or quashing the Criminal Court’s verdict.
He also emphasized that the court did not have the discretion to convict Nasheed of another offence in the same case.
Supreme Court, on Monday, concluded hearings of former President Mohamed Nasheed’s appeal.
The case, filed at the Supreme Court by the Prosecutor General's Office, seeks a ruling from the country’s apex court upholding the Criminal Court’s conviction of Nasheed.
A High Court ruling issued on September 10, 2015 stated that the Court had no right to accept the case since the appeal was not filed by the defendant, but by the state, which had already won the case.
Nasheed’s legal team, on Sunday, requested the Supreme Court to call former Prosecutor General Muhuthaz Muhsin as a witness to testify on behalf of the their client, claiming that the former top prosecutor would be able to tell the court about the undue influence he was under when he pressed politically-motivated charges against Nasheed.
Back in September 2015, at the preliminary hearing of the case, the former PG had admitted that Nasheed's case "is of national interest."
While Nasheed's team claims various "procedural irregularities," in his trial, including that he was not afforded enough time to prepare, the PG Office argues that the former President would have had enough time to prepare "since the documents of the case were the same ones submitted at Hulhumale' Court in 2012."
Speaking on RaajjeTV’s ‘Fala Surukhee’ programme, Wednesday night, Hassan Latheef highlighted that the Supreme Court had only two options left in Nasheed’s case; upholding or quashing the Criminal Court’s verdict.
He also emphasized that the court did not have the discretion to convict Nasheed of another offence in the same case.
Supreme Court, on Monday, concluded hearings of former President Mohamed Nasheed’s appeal.
The case, filed at the Supreme Court by the Prosecutor General's Office, seeks a ruling from the country’s apex court upholding the Criminal Court’s conviction of Nasheed.
A High Court ruling issued on September 10, 2015 stated that the Court had no right to accept the case since the appeal was not filed by the defendant, but by the state, which had already won the case.
Nasheed’s legal team, on Sunday, requested the Supreme Court to call former Prosecutor General Muhuthaz Muhsin as a witness to testify on behalf of the their client, claiming that the former top prosecutor would be able to tell the court about the undue influence he was under when he pressed politically-motivated charges against Nasheed.
Back in September 2015, at the preliminary hearing of the case, the former PG had admitted that Nasheed's case "is of national interest."
While Nasheed's team claims various "procedural irregularities," in his trial, including that he was not afforded enough time to prepare, the PG Office argues that the former President would have had enough time to prepare "since the documents of the case were the same ones submitted at Hulhumale' Court in 2012."
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