Jabir pardoned, released from prison

Former Kaashidhoo MP Abdulla Jabir has been pardoned by President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, and released from prison.

Sun Online has learned from a close ally of Jabir that the pardon was granted by the President this afternoon under the Clemency Act. This pardon comes following Jabir’s completion of half of his sentence.

Jabir was sentenced to one year in prison on 20 February 2014 for refusing an order by the police to provide a urine sample, after he was suspected of being intoxicated on 16 November 2012 in Hondaidhoo, an island in Haa Dhaalu Atoll.