Terror suspect Ameen re-arrested, remanded for 30 days
The High Court issued a MoniCon order against Ameen for a one-month period
Ameen was charged with being involved in a terrorist organization and plotting to carry out an act of terrorism.
Terrorist suspect Mohamed Ameen has been rearrested.
This comes at a time the Prosecutor General’s Office sought from the Criminal Court to order terrorist suspect Ameen to be remanded pending the outcome of his trial.
The terror suspect’s trial resumed at the Criminal Court on Sunday, after the Supreme Court overturned the decision to dismiss terrorism charges against the terror suspect, after the PG Office appealed the High Court’s ruling to dismiss terrorism charges against Ameen at the Supreme Court in September.
The presiding judges at the top court made the ruling on October 3.
During Sunday’s hearing in the trial, presiding judges ordered for his rearrest and remand for 30 days at a custodial facility. This verdict was reached as the state has presented enough adequate evidence to back the allegations against Ameen.
The High Court had dismissed the terrorism charges filed against Mohamed Ameen, native to Fuvahmulah City and arrested under allegations of recruiting persons to terrorist organizations, which in turn released the suspect from custody. Although the High Court revealed that the charges were dismissed as they were filed after the statute of limitation was expired, Prosecutor General Hussain Shameem stated that the charges were filed within the mandated period.
The PG Office appealed the High Court’s ruling at the country’s top court, citing that the High Court ruling is against Article 26 (k) of the Anti-Terrorism Act and that the court had failed to consider the exceptions to the statute of limitations stipulated in the act when raising charges and investigating cases related to terrorism.
High Court also issued a MoniCon order against Ameen, which bars him from traveling out of the capital city without authorization from the Maldives Police Service. The MoniCon order is effective for a period of one month and bars him from leaving his residence from 6pm to 6am.
Ameen was charged with being involved in a terrorist organization and conspiring to carry out an act of terrorism. He is the first Maldivian to have been listed as a terrorist by the United States Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
According to police, the Fuvahmulah City native is a suspected leader of the faction of terror organization Islamic State in the Maldives.
