Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Maldives vice president joins calls to free judge

Special Forces of Maldives Police stand guard at a protest in Male, Maldives, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. The Maldives government is threatening and harassing the media over their reporting of a political crisis and the military's arrest of the nation's top criminal court judge, Abdulla Mohamed, a journalists' group said Thursday Jan. 19. (AP Photo/Sinan Hussain) The Maldives' vice president joined calls Friday for the release of a detained senior judge, in a sign of divisions within the government of President Mohamed Nasheed.


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