AFTER NASHEED’S CONVICTION, MALDIVES AT CROSS-ROADS AGAIN? – ANALYSIS

By N Sathiya Moorthy* MARCH 20, 2015  Reminiscent of the era before multi-party democracy unfolded in 2008, the Opposition MDP has called for a nation-wide ‘civil disobedience movement’ after a three-judge Criminal Court Bench awarded a 13-year jail-term for former President Mohammed ‘Anni’ Nasheed in the ‘Judge Abdulla abduction case’. While the international community (read: West) has