MALE (Reuters) - The Maldives Supreme Court confirmed on Sunday that jailed former President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom is barred for the country's September presidential election. The ruling is ...

FILE - Abdullah Yameen speaks to the media outside his home in Male, Maldives, July 3, 2010. The highest court in the Maldives on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023 rejected a plea from the country's jailed former ...

MALE (Reuters) - The Supreme Court of the Maldives on Sunday upheld the results of last month's presidential election in an unanimous judgment after President Abdulla Yameen challenged his own defeat ...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, expressed concerns on Thursday over the suspension and disciplinary actions taken against three judges of ...

The UN expressed criticism on Monday of the Maldives Parliament’s dismissal of two judges from the country’s Supreme Court. The UN Human Rights Office claimed that the government’s recent ...

MALE, Maldives (AP) — The Maldives opposition leader and two Supreme Court judges were arrested early Tuesday hours after the government declared a state of emergency in the Indian Ocean nation ...

MALE, Maldives — The highest court in the Maldives on Sunday rejected a plea from the country’s jailed former president that he be made eligible to contest next month’s presidential election. Abdullah ...