The Criminal Court has scheduled hearings over two more cases against opposition aligned lawmaker Ahmed Mahloof for Wednesday.
The south-Galolhu constituency representative announced his court summoning through a post on Twitter.
Criminal Court schedules 2 more cases for 25th April.
— Ahmed Mahloof (@AhmedMahloof) April 22, 2018
• Terrorism; for a peaceful protest.
• False reports to law enforcement; regarding a tweet tagging Maldives Police Service to clarify a serious concern about former VP Adheeb.
@tweetafaiz @OmarWaraich @PGAction @amnesty pic.twitter.com/CgWLBaakM7
The lawmaker is facing allegations of terrorism and for submitting false reports to a law enforcement body.
Mahloof has also been summoned on Monday over charges against him for posting a tweet about the condition of prisoners at the state’s detention facility in Maafushi island.
The parliamentarian is also facing obstruction allegations for having distributed face masks to protect fellow demonstrators at an opposition rally from pepper spray, in February this year. Police officers were known to use copious amounts of it, which resulted in the injury of both demonstrators and reporters on scene to cover the rally.
