Supreme Court requests Prosecutor General

The Supreme Court of the Maldives has officially requested the Prosecutor General’s Office to take necessary legal actions against the President’s Political Advisor Ibrahim “Ibraa” Ismail for undermining the dignity of the Supreme Court in a number of statements he had made recently.

An official from the Prosecutor General’s Office said today, on condition of anonymity, that the request had been communicated via a letter sent by the Supreme Court last Sunday. The official said that the PG had not yet made a decision on the course of action to be adopted.

Ibraa has recently condemned the Supreme Court in two different occasions. On the first of these two occasions, Ibraa spoke in a gathering of the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) at K. Thulusdhoo early on September this year. He said that judges were making judgments according to their whims and caprices, and that the people must go out there to control them.

On the second occasion, Ibraa condemned the Supreme Court also in an MDP gathering held at Malé, saying that “we should not allow some seven guys at the Supreme Court to do whatever they fancy with this country” and that “the people would go out there against the Supreme Court if it tried to undermine the supremacy of the country’s Constitution”.

Ibraa said today that he had not done or said anything contrary to the laws and that therefore “there is nothing that the Prosecutor General’s Office can do against me”.