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India expresses concern over sentencing of ex-Maldives president

Xinhua, March 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

India voiced "deep concern" over the developments in the Maldives Saturday, a day after former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was sentenced to 13-year imprisonment.

"We are deeply concerned over the developments in the Maldives. We are monitoring the situation there," said a spokesman of India' s External Affairs Ministry.

The former president of the Maldives was convicted and sentenced to 13 years after three-judge panel ruled Friday that he issued an illegal order to detain a senior judge in 2012 while in office. Nasheed denied ordering the arrest. Endi