{"id":46171,"date":"2018-11-02T11:56:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=46171"},"modified":"2018-11-02T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:56:05","slug":"maldives-ex-president-returns-from-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/maldives-ex-president-returns-from-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives ex-President returns from asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Male<br \/>\nThe first democratically elected President of the Maldives returned home on Thursday after more than two years in exile to escape a long prison term.<\/p>\n<p>The plane carrying Mohamed Nasheed from Sri Lanka landed in Maldives\u2019 capital, Male, where he was welcomed by his party members and supporters. Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in jail in 2015 after being convicted of terrorism for ordering the arrest of a top judge in 2012 while he was President.<\/p>\n<p>His trial was criticised internationally for lack of due process, along with those of many other political opponents jailed by strongman President Yameen Abdul Gayoom\u2019s administration. He was offered asylum in Britain when he travelled there for medical treatment on leave from prison.<\/p>\n<p>Nasheed\u2019s return follows Yameen\u2019s defeat in the September 23 presidential election by Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, the candidate of Nasheed\u2019s Maldivian Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male The first democratically elected President of the Maldives returned home on Thursday after more than two years in exile to escape a long prison term. The plane carrying Mohamed Nasheed from Sri Lanka landed in Maldives\u2019 capital, Male, where he was welcomed by his party members and supporters. Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46173,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46171\/revisions\/46173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}