Maldives top court orders retrial of ex-president, opposition leaders

By Moahmed Junayd MALE (Reuters) - The Supreme Court of the Maldives on Thursday ordered the immediate release of former president Mohamed Nasheed and eight other opposition leaders, saying their trials had violated the constitution and international law - but it also ordered new trials. The country has been mired in political unrest since Nasheed, its first democratically elected leader, was ousted in 2012. In its ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court said it found that prosecutors and judges had been unduly influenced "to conduct politically motivated investigations" into the allegations leveled at Nasheed, former vice president Ahmed Adeeb and the other opposition leaders who had challenged Yameen.

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