President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom had personally dictated his
rival and former president Mohamed Nasheed’s prison sentence, the new Al
Jazeera documentary has revealed.
Created by the Emmy and BAFTA winning Al Jazeera’s Investigative
Unit, the documentary titled ‘Stealing Paradise’ contains leaked
documents, text messages and recorded confessions that has blown the lid
off mass corruption and abuse of power in the archipelago.
Mohamed ‘Oittey’ Hussain, the driver of the now jailed former vice
president Ahmed Adheeb
Abdul Ghafoor who is among the eight suspects
wanted in connection to the blast aboard the presidential speedboat last
year in a video recording says that he had collected a document on the
orders of his boss the day Nasheed was sentenced.
Nasheed had been sentenced last March on a terrorism charge over the
arrest and subsequent detention of a sitting Judge during his
presidency, in a trial widely criticized for lack of due process.
“The day Nasheed was sentenced, Adeeb called me and he told me to
pick up a letter. He gave me something written without an envelope,”
Hussain who is now an international fugitive after local police sought
interpol’s assistance.
“I just opened it. It was written Nasheed’s sentence.”
Hussain said he had taken the document straight to Adheeb who immediately called president Yameen.
“… and the president told Adeeb that there’s something that has to be changed,” Hussain who is believed to be in the UK added.
“That night they sentenced Nasheed.”
Hussain had not named the individual who had handed him the document allegedly related to Nasheed’s sentence.
Nasheed who has been granted asylum in the UK after he was allowed to
leave for medical treatment in an internationally brokered deal in
January has united the main opposition parties and stepped up efforts to
remove Yameen from office.
In the Al Jazeera documentary, Nasheed is told about Hussain’s
testimony during an interview with the climate change activist who was
elected in 2008 before he prematurely ousted in what he describes in a
coup in 2012.
“Its sad. Not only because I’ve been unlawfully and illegally held
for so long and my family has been uprooted from our home and I have had
to leave the Maldives,” Nasheed said.
Nasheed also alleged that all such politically motivated sentences are driven and directed by president Yameen.
source- http://en.mihaaru.com/maldives-pres-dictated-nasheeds-sentence-al-jazeera-expose/
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