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Maldives ex-leader Gayoom charged with terrorism

By AFP
March 22, 2018

COLOMBO: Maldivian authorities have charged former strongman Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and several senior judges with “terrorism” for attempting to topple President Abdulla Yameen, the government said Wednesday. Eighty-year-old Gayoom and ten others — including the sacked chief justice Abdulla Saeed — were charged under state of emergency laws imposed in the paradise tourist island last month.