Legal Team to Pursue Sanctions Against Maldives

A human rights legal team will pursue international sanctions and travel bans against the Maldives as part of its efforts to secure the release of the country's jailed former president, lawyer Amal Clooney said Thursday. They were taking that course of action because the Maldives government has failed to fulfill many of its promises made to ex-President Mohamed Nasheed, Clooney told reporters in Male, the capital of the Indian Ocean archipelago that is a high-end tourist...

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