Opposition leader and former President, Mohamed Nasheed has traveled to the United Kingdom from Sri Lanka on Tuesday, in order to meet with senior government officials.

Nasheed left Colombo on Tuesday morning, according to his administration’s foreign minister Ahmed Naseem.

Naseem, via twitter, revealed that Nasheed was headed to the UK in order to take part in meetings with senior government officials there.

The trip comes at a time when the European Parliament continues to discuss the Maldives situation. It recently adopted a resolution to impose targeted sanctions and travel bans against human rights abusers in the Maldives over the political turmoil in the country.  The resolution also supports the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling on February 1st, to reinstate lawmakers and to release unfairly detained individuals.

Sentenced to 13 years over terror charges in March 2015, Nasheed was allowed to travel to the UK on medical leave in January 2016. He has since been granted political asylum there.