Mohamed Nasheed, the former president and opposition leader of the Maldives was arrested on Sunday on terrorism charges. The country's prosecutor general claim he illegally ordered the detention of a senior judge during his tenure as president. Nasheed served as the archipelago's first democratically elected president from 2008 to 2012, and claims he was forced to quit in a coup, when soldiers protesting the judge's detention overran his headquarters.
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