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Jailed ex-leader leaves for surgery in Britain

By Agence France-Presse in Colombo, Sri Lanka | China Daily | Updated: 2016-01-22 08:14

Jailed former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed left for the UK on Thursday following a stopover in Sri Lanka after the islands' government granted him prison leave for urgent surgery, his party said.

Nasheed, whose conviction last March on terror-related charges has been widely criticized, left the Maldives on Monday after resolving a last-minute legal dispute with the government over his 30-day release for spinal cord surgery in the United Kingdom.

"He left Colombo early this morning," Maldivian Democratic Party spokesman Hamid Abdul Ghafoor said after a two-day stop in the Sri Lankan capital. "He was under strict instructions from his lawyers not to speak to journalists while in Colombo."

The Maldives government said Nasheed was traveling under what diplomatic sources described as a deal brokered by India, Sri Lanka and the UK.

But Nasheed refused a government request to leave a relative behind to act as a guarantor liable to prosecution if he failed to return to serve the rest of his sentence.

After a tense back and forth over conditions, the government finally agreed late Monday to let him leave.

His aides said he had held extensive meetings with Western ambassadors in Colombo to discuss the political turmoil on the upmarket holiday island nation.

Nasheed, 48, became the first democratically elected president of the Maldives in 2008 and served for four years before he was toppled in what he called a coup backed by the military and police.

Terrorism charges

He was sentenced to 13 years in jail on terrorism charges relating to the arrest of an allegedly corrupt judge in 2012, when he was still in power.

The UN has said his trial was seriously flawed and he should be released and compensated for wrongful detention.

But President Abdulla Yameen has refused to accept the UN ruling and has been resisting international pressure to release Nasheed.

Yameen is a half-brother of former leader Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who ruled for 30 years until his defeat by Nasheed in the country's first multiparty elections in 2008.

 Jailed ex-leader leaves for surgery in Britain

Mohamed Nasheed, former Maldivian president Kodikara / Agence France-Presse

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