Summary Opposition supporters paraded in the streets of the capital, Male, demanding Nasheed's release.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: (AP) - An opposition lawmaker in the Maldives says her party has resolved to continue protests in the streets and in parliament until the government frees a former president and current opposition leader from police detention.
Eva Abdulla says her Maldivian Democratic Party and another ally decided Saturday that Mohamed Nasheed, the Indian Ocean archipelago nation s first democratically elected president, must be released immediately.
Nasheed was arrested this past week for his alleged role in the 2012 arrest of a senior judge while he was president. The prosecution has accused him of kidnapping Criminal Court Chief Judge Abdulla Mohamed in 2012 and has charged him under the country s anti-terrorism law.
Thousands of opposition supporters paraded in the streets of the capital, Male, on Friday demanding Nasheed s release.
