Two of the world’s most famous female lawyers are going head to head in court over a human rights case. Amal Clooney will be representing Mohamed Nasheed, the first elected leader of the Maldives for 30 years, who was deposed at gunpoint just four years after coming to power in 2008.
Two of the world’s most famous female lawyers are going head to head in court over a human rights case. Amal Clooney will be representing Mohamed Nasheed, the first elected leader of the Maldives for 30 years, who was deposed at gunpoint just four years after coming to power in 2008.
The Maldivian Democratic Party, which Nasheed set up in 2003, told the Daily Mail: ‘Omnia Strategy is the very worst kind of mercenary outfit. ‘It is taking possibly millions of dollars in exchange for helping a dictatorship keep a democracy hero in jail.
Amnesty International describe his imprisonment a ‘travesty of justice’ and such was the international outrage that Mrs Clooney, a renowned human rights lawyer, has been drafted in to fight for his release (free of charge).
They are no friends of the Maldives.’. Meanwhile, Mrs Clooney has filed a case to the United Nations saying her client’s detention is a breach of international law. She says the charges were concocted by the Maldivian government as a punishment for his criticism of the regime. The case is being heard in the Maldives.
Amal Clooney, high-powered human rights lawyer and high-fashion Hollywood wife, swept through Washington this week — bringing the spotlight to a crisis in the Maldives, a honeymoon paradise where her latest client went from being president to prisoner. The 37-year-old attorney is representing Mohamed Nasheed, who rode a wave ...
Capitol, Clooney won support for the introduction of a congressional resolution calling for sanctions against members of the Maldives' current regime until they free Nasheed, whose conviction and 13-year sentence has been criticized by the State Department and the United Nations.
The media-savvy new leader's positions on climate change and democratic reform won him praise from the West and the starring role in "Island President," a documentary about the Maldives, which are only eight feet above sea level, and the threat of rising waters from global warming.
According to a U.N. report, at least 200 people from the Maldives have joined the terror gang in Syria and Iraq — the equivalent, Clooney says, of 14,000 Australians running off to the caliphate.
The human rights lawyer is trying to win the freedom of the ex-president of the Maldives. Tap to Unmute.
As international condemnation of Nasheed's imprisonment grew, Blair's firm, Omnia Strategy, was retained by the Maldives government to help "strengthen democratic institutions" and "promote a culture of respect for human rights.". Headlines focusing on the battle between the two women are a "distraction," Clooney said, ...
George Clooney and and his wife Amal cruise the Grand Canal after leaving the Aman luxury Hotel in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014. Luigi Costantini / AP. As the Oxford-educated lawyer met with Sen. John McCain and other members of Congress, she was all business.
Amal Clooney, on an Indian Ocean Island that is divided between beachfront holiday villas and a top security prison, on Wednesday visited her latest high-profile client – the jailed former president of the Maldives.
Her law firm, Omnia Strategy recently struck a lucrative deal to advise the autocratic government that has prosecuted Mohamed Nasheed, a client of the wife of actor George Clooney. As the Maldives ’ first democratically elected leader, Mr Nasheed became a friend of David Cameron and US President Barack Obama.
The legal drama playing out in the chain of atolls best-known for their pristine beaches and luxury resorts has pitted the international human rights lawyer against another renowned female British legal mind, former prime minister Tony Blair’s wife, Cherie.
Back in March last year, Maldives opposition leader Mohammed Nasheed was thrown into prison for 13 years by the country’s despotic President Abdulla Yameen, in what Amnesty International dubbed a ‘travesty of justice’.
The message, obtained by the Mail this week, carried weight because it was written by Benedict Rogers, a senior figure in the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.