Maldives ex-leader Nasheed arrested
Police in the Maldives have arrested opposition leader and former president Mohamed Nasheed on terror charges.
He is accused of illegally ordering the detention of a senior judge while in office in January 2012.
The order triggered widespread protests that led to his standing down a month later, when soldiers overran his party headquarters in the capital Male.
Nasheed had been president since 2008, when he won the Indian Ocean archipelago's first democratic poll.
Following his departure, Nasheed said he had been forced to quit in a coup.
However his successor Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik - who had been serving as vice-president - said Nasheed left of his own accord following the unrest.
Officials say the Maldives' anti-terror law covers not only acts or planned acts of violence, but a range of "acts against the state."
Nasheed was first detained over the order to arrest Judge Abdullah Mohamed in 2013, but was released a day later.
Later that year, Nasheed lost a presidential election to Abdulla Yameen, the Maldives' current leader.
Yameen is a half-brother of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom - whose autocratic rule lasted 30 years until he was defeated by Nasheed in the 2008 election.
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