Former President Mohamed Nasheed، who has been sentenced to 13 years in prison on terrorism charges، was brought to ADK Hospital today for medical check-up.
He has been changed to home detention following the doctor advising him to be changed to a ‘stress-free’ location.
He was brought to Male’ for consultation on Sunday، and on the same day was placed in house detention.
Recently Nasheed was brought to Male’ to consult dentist.
Meanwhile، lawyers of Nasheed had requested to arrange for an MRI scan for Nasheed.
Former president Mohamed Nasheed is currently serving 13 years in jail، a verdict issued for proven terrorism charges for isolating and illegally detaining Abdulla Gaazee in 2012.
A letter signed by Lawyer Hassan Latheef (a lawyer of Nasheed’s legal team) urging for clemency sent to President Yameen stated that President Yameen has the rights to issue leniency to Nasheed under Article 29 of the Clemency Act.‎
As a response to the letter، President Yameen said that 13 year prison sentence of Nasheed will be commuted once he completes the appeal process.