A complaint on 11 year prison sentence issued on former defence minister Colonel Rtd. Mohamed Nazim will be filed in United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention، says Nazim’s brother the former STO’s Managing Director Adam Azim.
In an interview with the New Indian Express، Adam Azim said that as they have not found a solution within Maldives courts، they are to file an application before united nations working group within a month to get justice.
The only place where Maldivians can get justice is from united nations،” added Azim.
After Col Nazim was not allowed to travel to India for medical treatment، his younger brother Adam Azim and legal counsel Husnu Al Suood travelled to Delhi this week to meet with officials of the International Red Cross Committee in Delhi to apprise them of the status of prisoners.
“My brother’s eyesight is deteriorating rapidly and we are very worried. He could even go blind،” Azim told New Indian Express.
He recounted that family had become alarmed after there “were rumours in Male that Col Nazim and Nasheed were being slow-poisoned”.
Meanwhile، the united nations working group on arbitrary detention (UN WGAD) has decided in favour of the complaint filed by the former president Mohamed Nasheed on his 13 year jail sentence. However، the government has stated that they could not adhere or accept the opinions of the working group.