Dictator Nasheed’s Police and Military arrest and then get the Court to charge Leaders of two main opposition parties Gasim Ibrahim and Yamin Abdul Gayoom with sedition and conspiracy to oust the President and his government

Reports are emerging that the Leaders of the two main opposition arrested and taken to Dhoonidhoo prison have been charged with sedition and conspiracy to oust the government of Mohamed Nasheed and his party MDP. They have been ordered to appear in court within the hour although they are still in solitary confinement in Dhoonidhoo jail after the Police and the Military arrested them in a joint operation.
The current President came to power helped by a coalition of political parties including JP and Gasim Ibrahim who came the fourth in the first round of Presidential election and Leader of GP Dr Hassan Saeed who came third in the first round of Presidential election held in 2008. Nasheed who secured just a mere 25 percent of the votes was able to win the second round when the two leaders and their party supporters mobilised behind him and secured their combined 30 percent of the votes from the first round.
Within months the President got rid of both Leaders and cancelled the coalition agreement made with both parties, and he now accuses them of trying to oust his government.
Denied of legal representation, arrested arbitrarily the Leaders are taken to solitary confinement earlier today to the jail for political prisoners in Dhoonidho island. Within hours the Maldives Police and the Military conducted their own investigation and getting the Court to charge them with sedition and conspiring against the MDP government and attempting to oust the President.
Now they are charged and the Court has ordered the Leaders to appear within the hour. The Capital is heavily guarded by the combined forces of the Maldives Military and Police.
The Cabinet Minister’s resignation earlier today means the Executive branch of the government has only the President and the Vice President left in it.
We call on the Maldives Human Rights Commission, the UN Human Rights Commission, Amnesty International and the Asian Human Rights Commission and the EU to wake up, intervene immediately and save these leaders from the clutches of this run away Dictator Nasheed.