The government has refused to release Maduvvari MP Mohamed Ameeth’s passport to attend his grandfather’s funeral in Sri Lanka.
In a tweet on Saturday, the MP said that the police service and the Criminal Court has refused to release his passport for no valid reason.
In the tweet, he shared a picture of him with his grandfather and also attached a picture of a request to release his passport submitted to the Criminal Court on May 24, when his grandfather was still being treated in the neighboring country.
For no valid reason, @PoliceMV & the CC refused to release my Passport today, preventing me from attending my grand-father's funeral.
— Mohamed Ameeth (@MohamedAmeeth) June 2, 2018
I wish I'm there to say my last goodbye & pay my last respect to him .
May Allah forgive his sin & grant him jannah. امین pic.twitter.com/udJVYiu12E
The opposition MP is being investigated for allegedly calling on the public to overthrow the government and for encouraging anti-government political turmoil during the state of emergency in February.
He has said that his statements have been misunderstood.
