Maldives Supreme Court should charge Dictator Nasheed and the Military with acts of terrorism, human rights violation in the kidnapping, arbitrary arrest, disappearance and solitary confinement of Judge Abdulla as well as the degrading acts carried out against peaceful protestors on a daily basis.

With Maldives Dictator holding Judges of the Judiciary hostage, in solitary confinement, and using the Military to attack, arrest peaceful protesters every night as well as withholding the salaries of the Judges of the Judiciary, the Supreme Court is facing immense pressure from Human Rights groups and the Maldivian people to charge Dictator Nasheed and the Military with terrorism and human rights violation. It is time the Supreme Court charge the Dictator and the Military that has become blind to their own acts of terror and intimidation.
Repeated calls to release Judge Abdulla by both domestic and international bodies have fallen on the deaf ears of both the Dictator that ordered the arrest, and the Military that carried out the act. There have been many other cases of unlawful arrests and injuries to civilians already lodged against the Maldives Military while Dictator Nasheed’s use of extra judicial powers to hold Judge Abdulla in solitary confinement for over 3 weeks denying him access to Justice as granted in the Constitution have been challenged and disputed by international human rights organisations as well as governments of the world, all of them advocating his release.
Abduction of Ghazi Abdulla by the Dictator and the Military that carried out his order is a politically motivated terrorist act. Therefore his family has also lodged a case against the Dictator while Vice President of the opposition party PPM, Umar Naseer has also lodged a similar case against the Military and Dictator Nasheed.
Cruel degrading inhuman punishments on the orders of Dictator Nasheed are being carried out by the Military on a daily basis since the disappearance of Judge Abdulla. Ex AG and previous SAARC secretary-general, she was dragged by the Military while protesting and her arrest with 7 other women were extremely violent. Similarly MP’s and opposition politicians that participated in the anti-government protests were beaten up so badly some of them were left disabled in wheel chairs.
The Law prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention of the Maldivian people. Dictator Nasheed arresting and responsible for the disappearance of Judge Abdulla is a gross violation of human rights that the Supreme Court should no longer overlook.
The Supreme Court should act now and charge both the Military and the Dictator for their atrocities against Judge Abdulla as well as their use of extra judicial powers to persecute and intimidate Dictators political opponents and peaceful protestors.