Former president of the Maldives, Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayyoom has appealed his 11-year jail sentence in High Court today. The appeal was filed on behalf of President Yameen by his lawyer and former Vice President of Maldives, Dr. Mohamed Jameel Ahmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a tweet made earlier today, Dr. Jameel said that the rule of law can only be maintained in Maldives if there is a judiciary free from government influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Promoting judges because of a certain verdict and leaking audios is wrong. We will succeed,” Dr. Jameel tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On 25 December 2022, the Criminal Court sentenced President Yameen to 11 years in prison and fined him $5 million. He was convicted of money laundering and accepting bribes in connection with the V. Aarah case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Yameen, who is the winner of PPP and PNC coalition’s presidential ticket will be able to contest this year’s presidential election only after a higher court quashes the Criminal Court’s conviction against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former president of the Maldives, Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayyoom has appealed his 11-year jail sentence in High Court today. The appeal was filed on behalf of President Yameen by his lawyer and former Vice President of Maldives, Dr. Mohamed Jameel Ahmed. In a tweet made earlier today, Dr. Jameel said that the rule of law … Continue reading “President Yameen Appeals 11-Year Jail Sentence in High Court”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,3],"tags":[295,254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}