Former President Mohamed Nasheed has been brought to Male’ for medical treatment and again taken back to Dhoonidhoo detention facility.
According to reports Nasheed was brought to Male’ at about 2:30 yesterday afternoon. He was treated at Medica and taken back to Dhoonidhoo facility at 3:00.
The legal team of the former President Nasheed said that he was brought to Male’ without any notice to them or to the family.
Nasheed was manhandled and hurt by members of the Maldives Police Force day before yesterday, as they forcibly dragged him into the Criminal Court for the first hearing of his surprise trial for ‘terrorism’.
Photos and videos, along with eyewitness testimony show police officers pushing President Nasheed to the ground as he paused to talk to reporters on the way into the Criminal Court compound.
President Nasheed repeatedly asked the police to allow him to walk into the court unhindered, but police officers dragged him across the ground, ripping his clothes in the process.
In court and visibly hurt, with his arm wrapped in his tie as a makeshift sling, and the buttons of his shirt ripped off, President Nasheed repeatedly requested Judge Abdulla Didi to allow him access to medical treatment. The judge refused.