Former Maldives president who sought asylum in UK returns home
2018-11-02 09:51:49 source：The Guardian
November 1, 2018
The first democratically elected president of the Maldives, who sought political asylum in the UK after being jailed on dubious terrorism offences, has returned to the country after three years in exile.
Mohamed Nasheed, a democracy activist who won the island nation’s first free election in 2008, landed in the Maldives at about 3pm local time and was greeted by supporters dressed in yellow, his party’s colour.
He was accompanied on the plane by Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, his Maldivian Democratic party colleague who won an upset victory in September’s presidential election.
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