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Sunday, November 29, 2015
Maldives police break up opposition protest
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release from jail of former Presi-
dent Mohamed Nasheed, ex-
Defense Minister Mohamed
Nazim and opposition leader
Sheik Imran Abdulla, as well as
the end of court actions against
1,700 political activists.
It says the actions against the
leaders and activists are part of a
political vendetta by the current
president, Yameen Abdul
Gayoom.
Police used pepper spray Fri-
day night to disperse protesters
as they prepared for a street
march. They also cut off electric-
ity for the campaign site.
On Saturday, police used tear
gas and pepper spray against the
protesters, and said they had ar-
rested 13 demonstrators.
Maldivian Democratic Party
spokesman Hamid Abdul Gaf-
foor said the police had initially
agreed to allow a three-day pro-
test as long as sound systems
were not used after midnight.
However, they withdrew their
permission after the govern-
ment interfered, he said.
Government officials could
not be reached immediately for
comment.
Nasheed was sentenced to 13
years in prison for ordering the
arrest of a top judge in 2012,
when he was president. Nazim is
serving a 10-year sentence for il-
legal possession of a pistol, and
Abdulla has been detained for
allegedly inciting violence at an
anti-government protest in May.
The Maldives, known mainly
for its pristine beaches and luxu-
ry island resorts, became a mul-
tiparty democracy in 2008, but
democratic gains have been
shrinking fast.
Nasheed, the Indian Ocean
archipelago’s first democratically
elected president, resigned four
years into his five-year term amid
protests against his role in the ar-
rest of the judge. Gayoom, a half-
brother of the Maldives’ former
30-year autocrat, defeated Nash-
eed in a disputed election in 2013.
The Maldives’ judiciary, po-
lice and bureaucracy are
deemed highly politicized and
are accused of being used by
Gayoom to crack down on the
opposition.
By Krishan Francis
Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -
Police in the Maldives dispersed
opposition protesters for a sec-
ond straight day Saturday, using
tear gas and pepper spray and
arresting more than a dozen
demonstrators demanding the
release of a former president
and other jailed political leaders.
After Friday’s protest was
shut down, the opposition Mal-
divian Democratic Party vowed
to regroup Saturday, saying it
was within its legal rights to con-
tinue the protests because police
had unilaterally withdrawn
from agreed-upon terms for a
72-hour demonstration.
The party is demanding the
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Supporters of former Maldivian president Mohamed Nash-
eed participate in a protest rally in Male, Maldives, on Friday.
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grants on the Greek-Macedo-
nian border attacked police with
stones Saturday, enraged by the
sight of Macedonian authorities
erecting a fence along the border
and an accident that injured a
young Moroccan man.
Authorities said 18 Macedo-
nian officers were injured in the
briefbut intense clashes. Most of
them received minor injuries
but two were hospitalized in the
nearby town of Gevgelija, Mace-
donia’s Interior Ministry said.
There was no official tally of
injured migrants, although Mace-
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unrest among the migrants,
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Macedonia decided earlier this
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Greece this year, many after
making the short sea crossing
from Turkey. Most of them con-
tinue on a long trek through the
Balkans toward the promised
lands of central and northern
Europe.
The 24-year-old is in a seri-
ous condition, with extensive
bums, Greek police said, and
has been transferred to a hospi-
tal in the city of Thessaloniki, 50
miles south of the border.
The man’s Moroccan compa-
triots formed the bulk of the
about 250 people who started
throwing stones at Macedonian
police. Also among the 800 who
are stuck at the border are citi-
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