{"id":48430,"date":"2018-11-27T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T11:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=48430"},"modified":"2018-11-27T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T11:06:17","slug":"maldives-sc-overturns-conviction-of-former-president-md-nasheed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/maldives-sc-overturns-conviction-of-former-president-md-nasheed\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives SC overturns conviction of former president Md. Nasheed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Maldives Supreme Court has overturned conviction of former president Mohamed Nasheed in a controversial case of terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that Nasheed was wrongfully charged and the criminal court should not have proceeded to trial.<\/p>\n<p>The former President was sentenced to 13-year jail sentence when criminal court found him guilty of ordering arrest of a criminal court judge when he was in power.<\/p>\n<p>He was greeted by his supporters when he emerged from the courthouse after the judgment Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He told reporters that his political career was not over, praising the courage and unshakable resolve of the public for securing his freedom.<\/p>\n<p>He asserted the judgment makes clear that he was put on trial by the influence of former president Abdulla Yameen.<\/p>\n<p>Nasheed was debarred from contesting Presidential elections held in September due to his conviction and Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, named as an alternative candidate defeated Yameen.<\/p>\n<p>The court had suspended Nasheed sentence last month and cleared the way for his return to Maldives after nearly three years in exile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maldives Supreme Court has overturned conviction of former president Mohamed Nasheed in a controversial case of terrorism. The court ruled that Nasheed was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48430","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\/48430","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=48430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48432,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48430\/revisions\/48432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}