Mohamed Nasheed

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Mohamed Nasheed (2009)

Mohamed Nasheed ( Dhivehi މުހައްމަދު ނަޝީދު, Born May 17, 1967 ), called Anni , is a Maldivian politician. He was President of the Maldives from 2008 to 2012 . The oceanographer , BA and former journalist succeeded Maumoon Abdul Gayoom , who ruled the country for 30 years. Nasheed a. a. through his media-effective advocacy for stricter CO 2 reduction targets during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009. Mohamed Nasheed resigned from his post as President on February 7, 2012 after popular protests and a mutiny by revolting police officers.

Political activities

The Sunni Muslim Mohamed Nasheed was a member of parliament for the constituency of Malé and was arrested in 2001 for no known reason. Amnesty International suspected that the reasons for his arrest were political. He had been detained 13 times since 1989. For example, in April 1996 he was cared for as a prisoner of conscience by the human rights organization. At the time, he was arrested for his work as a freelance journalist . He was later sentenced to two years in prison for this reason.

Mohamed Nasheed is a co-founder of the Maldives Democratic Party. As early as 2001, including with his signature, a permit to found the Maldivian Democratic Party was applied for. The application was not approved by the state authorities. It was only founded in 2005, when an opposition was allowed in the island state after protests . Like other opposition politicians, Mohamed Nasheed continued to be hindered in his political work.

Presidential election

Mohamed Nasheed was elected President of the Maldives on October 28, 2008. In the first ballot, Mohamed Nasheed won almost 25 percent of the vote against President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who has ruled for thirty years, as the best result out of five opponents. Gayoom received 41 percent and thus missed an absolute majority. In the second ballot , Mohamed Nasheed was the only opposing candidate with a turnout of around 75 percent with 54 percent.

In his election campaign, Mohamed Nasheed called for an improvement in the health system , the privatization of state-owned trading companies and the fight against corruption. He also promised to convert the presidential palace into the country's first university. In the otherwise “dirty election campaign”, the then president assumed that he wanted to convert Muslims to Christianity. In contrast, Nasheed described the president as a dictator , which until then no one in the island state had publicly gone with impunity.

After the election, he announced that he would open the country without restrictions. At the moment there are still islands that are inhabited by the local population but are not accessible to tourists. He also wants to open the country more to trade and foreign investment.

Resignation, further activities

In media-effective campaigns, President Nasheed tries to make the world public aware of the impending demise of his country in the course of global warming and to win them over to the goal of limiting the CO 2 content of the atmosphere to 350 ppm. In 2010 he received the Champions of Earth Award .

At the end of 2011, the government of the Maldives ordered the closure of wellness centers in hundreds of luxury hotels. The move was a response to protests against "anti-Islamic activities" in the country, said President Nasheed's office in a statement. Thousands of islanders had called for an end to "anti-Islamic activities" at a protest rally organized by the opposition. Among other groups, the opposition Justice Party accused President Nasheed of undermining the principles of Islam.

On February 6, 2012, there was an attempted coup against him. Police mutiners and demonstrators took over the state radio. Nasheed resigned the next day to end the conflict. Tensions escalated after the arrest of Abdulla Mohamed , a judge at the State Court of Justice, who ordered a government critic to be released a month earlier .

On October 8, 2012, the police briefly arrested him for refusing to appear in court. He was accused of abuse of power.

On February 22, 2015, Nasheed was arrested again, this time on the basis of anti-terrorism laws, which he rejected as unfounded. On March 13, 2015, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison, which is why he will not be able to run for the next presidential election in 2018. The US State Department described the process as politically motivated and questionable under the rule of law. Even Amnesty International criticized the trial as politically motivated

On January 18, 2016, Nasheed was allowed to break his detention and travel to London for back surgery , where he was granted political asylum and where he was received by British Prime Minister David Cameron upon arrival.

Mohammed Nasheed is ambassador for the climate protection organization 350.org .

Movie

In 2011, a film about Mohamed Nasheed's struggle for the survival of his country in the face of an impending sea level rise was released. This bears the title The Island President and is primarily about Nasheed's efforts to anchor a binding CO 2 reduction target in the final document at the end of the 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen .

Web links

Commons : Mohamed Nasheed  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Report on Mohamed Nasheed on Island.lk (English) accessed on January 1, 2009
  2. ↑ on the resignation of Nasheed . Spiegel Online . Retrieved February 7, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Detention without contact with the outside world - Maldives. ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. amnesty international @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amnesty.de
  4. ↑ a b Sascha Zastiral: Change of power in the Maldives The first democratic election . In: taz , October 29, 2008
  5. ↑ Tagesschau from October 29, 2008 ( Memento from November 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Daniel Kestenholz: Autocrat Gayoom was recalled by election . In: Neues Deutschland , October 30, 2008 (copy via AG Peace Research )
  7. ↑ AOL news from October 29, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.aol.ch  
  8. ^ Cabinet of the Maldives meets on the sea floor: In a diving suit against climate change ( memento from October 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de, report from October 17, 2009
  9. ↑ welt.d December 30, 2011: Government of the Maldives closes wellness center .
  10. ^ After the police mutiny: President of the Maldives resigns.
  11. ↑ Former President Nasheed arrested in Maldives .
  12. ↑ Ex-President arrested - Political settlements in the Maldives
  13. ↑ 13 years imprisonment for the former president of the Maldives
  14. ↑ a b Jason Burke: Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed jailed for 13 years . In: the Guardian .
  15. ^ Maldives: 13 year sentence for former president 'a travesty of justice' . Amnesty International. March 13, 2015.
  16. ↑ Mohamed Nasheed on the way to Great Britain In: NZZ , January 19, 2016
  17. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger : British grant ex-presidents of the Maldives asylum , accessed on May 24, 2016
  18. ^ Film The Island President in the English language Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME Nasheed, Mohamed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anni, Mohamed; މުހައްމަދު ނަޝީދު (dvS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Maldivian politician, President of the Maldives
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1967