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Maldives courts boycott sessions to protest chief justice’s arrest
Judge was arrested on Monday after he freed an opposition leader detained for allegedly defaming the governmentThe Maldives’ military has arrested the chief justice of the country’s criminal court after he released an opposition leader who had been detained without a warrant for allegedly defaming the government. The arrest of Judge Abdulla Mohamed on Monday has prompted all courts in Maldives to boycott sessions on Tuesday, in what could become a showdown between the country’s first freely-elected government and the independent judiciary introduced by former pro-democracy political prisoner President Mohamed Nasheed after coming to power in 2008.
published date:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:08:42 GMT