Former Prosecutor General (PG) Muhuthaaz Muhsin, who is serving a 17-year jail term, has been admitted for his third hip injection.
Muhsin has been admitted at a local hospital for a period of 10 days, which doctors estimate would be adequate time for recovery from the procedure.
The Maldives Correctional Service and the police have been accused of negligence by not allowing the former prosecutor general to receive adequate treatment.
His family has said that authorities allowed Muhsin's chronic medical condition to decline while in incarceration.
Doctors have recommended that he undergo physiotherapy after the procedure, which his family claim has been a contentious matter for officers of the Maldives Correctional Service, who they say have been ‘negligent in ensuring’ opportunity for it.
Muhsin was convicted of being party to forging an arrest warrant for incumbent President Abdulla Yameen, in a plot to overthrow a ‘legally elected and established government’. In 2016, the ex-PG was also accused of kidnapping, under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
On February 1st, the Maldivian Supreme Court ruled that the proceedings that resulted in Muhsin’s arrest and detention was carried out unjustly and that he should be released from incarceration. However, this ruling has since been repealed after two justices of the apex court were arrested and President Yameen declared a state of emergency in the country was declared.
