Abdullah Yameen

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Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed is greeted by supporters in Malé in February 2012, after he was ousted in a coup. He was in jailed last March to 13 years under an anti-terrorism law following a rushed trial that was condemned internationally as flawed. Photograph: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
Maldives sinking further into repression as state remains impervious to criticism

About this time last year, Mohamed Nasheed, the ousted pro-democracy president of the Maldives, stood at the doorway of his Maldivian Democratic Party(...)

Mohamed Nasheed, the democracy campaigner, journalist and environmental activist who in 2008 became the first democratically elected president of the Maldives. Photograph: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
Maldives’ interrupted former president again fighting for political foothold

Down a narrow alley and up the stairs of an unglamorous building in the bustling island city of Malé, a slight-framed, bespectacled man sits alone (...)

Maldivian women walk past the Grand Friday Mosque in the island capital of Malé. Few visitors get to see the reality of life for locals in the Indian Ocean archipelago who live in an increasingly harsh regime under President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom. Photograph: AFP Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images
Tourists blissfully unaware of Islamist tide in Maldives

On arrival in the Maldives, holidaymakers bound for the exclusive resort of Gili Lankanfushi are whisked from the airport to a speedboat, given a f(...)