Nazim, who had served as the defence minister under former president Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik and incumbent president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, is serving an 11-year prison sentence for smuggling and possessing dangerous weapons. After a closed-door hearing Sunday afternoon, Nazim’s lawyer Husnu Suood told reporters that the High Court had decided to summon the remaining witnesses presented by his client during the trial, but were not brought in. The court will also summon a witness presented by the prosecution, he added. High Court informed reporters that Monday’s hearing, where the witnesses are expected to give their statements, would be held behind closed-doors. During the Criminal Court trial, Nazim’s attorneys had submitted more than 50 witnesses, including President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, then police chief Hussein Waheed, home minister Umar Naseer, and then tourism minister Ahmed Adheeb Abdul Ghafoor who later went onto become the vice president before being deposed after an assassination attempt on the president. The Criminal Court, however, did not summon most of the witnesses. Sunday's closed-door hearing was held to rule on the admissibility of a fresh classified document presented as evidence by the prosecution in a previous appeal hearing. However, Suood said no decision was made at Sunday’s hearing. When the appeal proceedings resumed at the High Court early this month, prosecutors sought permission from the judges’ bench to submit what they described as a new classified document. Instructions have been received to not disclose the contents of the document, they added. In response to the judges, the prosecutors said the document was not submitted as evidence during the Criminal Court trial because it had been received after the sentencing. Prosecutors handed over the document to the judges, but did not give a copy to the defence attorneys. Questioned by Nazim’s lawyer Suood, the judges said a decision would be taken later on the admissibility of the document. Any details that could be disclosed would be shared with the defence after that, the judges added. Before the closed-door hearing, which started at 2pm and went on for an hour, a regular hearing was held Sunday morning. During the hearing, prosecutors and defence attorneys spoke on the subject of the case. Nazim’s appeal hearings resumed early this month after a long break. Before the hearing on December 3, the High Court had held two hearings over Nazim's appeal in June, but the case had been stalled ever since. The case stalled after three out of the five judges were removed from the bench that had been looking into the appeal. Judge Abdul Ghani Mohamed, who had presided over the case, and judge Shuaib Hussein Zakariyya were transferred to the court’s branch established in the southern part of the country, while judge Abbas Shareef retired. Judges Abdulla Didi and Shujau Usman were on the Criminal Court bench that ruled against Nazim. They have since been promoted to the High Court, but are not on the bench that had been constituted to look into the appeal filed by Nazim. With the absence of both Didi and Usman from the bench, Nazim’s appeal is presided over by judges Ali Sameer, Abdu Rauf and Abdulla Hameed. In May, Nazim was allowed to get treatment in Singapore for blurred vision. He spent 45 days in Singapore, and upon his return was re-taken to the Asseyri Prison in Hinmafushi island. Following another request but this time to get Nazim to India, the government had granted permission for him to go to Singapore for medical treatment After Nazim was not allowed to travel to India for medical treatment, his younger brother Adam Azim and legal counsel Husnu Al Suood travelled to Indian capital New Delhi in September to meet with officials of the International Red Cross Committee to apprise them of the status of prisoners. Nazim’s family had also announced their intention to follow jailed former President Mohamed Nasheed’s lead and file a case with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. The statement by Nazim's family, who claim that it was the only way for him to get justice, came after the UN group had ruled that former president Nasheed's imprisonment had been arbitrary. The Maldives government, however, has refused to accept the opinion.