Ex-President Maumoon's terrorism trial hearing postponed to Tuesday
He is being charged with bribing and influencing the verdicts of judges and bribing parliamentarians
Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s trial hearing
Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s trial hearing on terrorism-related charges has been postponed to Tuesday.
Criminal Court did not disclose the reason for cancelling Monday’s hearing.
A preliminary hearing was also scheduled for June 26 and then cancelled.
The opposition leader is being charged with bribing and influencing the verdicts of judges since 2013, bribing Dhangethi MP Ilham Ahmed and South-Mahchangolhi MP Abdulla Sinan, and influencing the Supreme Court to issue their ruling on February 1.
He was arrested after President Abdulla Yameen, his half-brother, declared a state of emergency after refusing to abide by the Supreme Court’s February 1 ruling, which ordered the release of political prisoners and reinstatement of opposition MPs into parliament.
On June 13, Maumoon was sentenced to one year, seven months, and six days in prison for obstruction for refusing to hand over his phone to the police.
It has been five months and 18 days since he is being kept in prison and the government has refused his family’s request to transfer him to house arrest due to his ill health.
