A court in the Maldives has jailed former vice president Ahmed Adeeb for 15 years for plotting to assassinate President Abdulla Yameen following an explosion on the president's speed launch last September, his lawyer said on Friday. The judgment was delivered late on Thursday, four days after Adeeb was sentenced for 10 years on terrorism charges for possessing firearms. Nasheed was himself jailed for 13 years on terrorism charges after a trial in 2015 that was widely denounced as politically motivated. The court said it can conclude that there was an IED (Improvised Explosive Device)," Moosa Siraj, Adeeb's lawyer told Reuters. He said one witness testified that Adeeb had given orders for an IED to be planted.

Source: The Star June 10, 2016 07:18 UTC