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10 - Mohamed Nasheed v. The Maldives

from Part IV. - Additional Case Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2019

Jared Genser
Jared Genser
Affiliation:
Georgetown University Law Center
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Mohamed Nasheed is a Maldivian environmental activist, renowned journalist, and politician who served as the first democratically elected President of the Maldives from 2008 to 2012. Nasheed made a name for himself as a dissident journalist, regularly reporting on human rights abuses in the Maldives and challenging the authoritarian administration of former President Maumoon Gayoom (1978–2008).1

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Mohamed NasheedThe Maldivesfreedom of opinion and expressionfreedom of peaceful assemblyfreedom of political participationfair trial rightsaccess to counselindependent judiciary
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The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Commentary and Guide to Practice
 , pp. 457 - 489
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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