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High Court upholds 10-year prison term for ex-defence minister

High Court upholds 10-year prison term for ex-defence minister

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The High Court Tuesday upheld a 10-year prison term for former defence minister Tholhath Ibrahim Kaleyfaan over the arrest of a judge in 2011. Tholhath was convicted of terrorism and sentenced in April 2015 for the arbitrary arrest of Criminal Court Judge Abdulla Mohamed. The judge’s three-week detention at the military training base on the […]