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Madushanka faces murder conspiracy charge
View(s):The 24-year-old Sri Lankan national being held in the Maldives over allegations he conspired with two others to assassinate the President of that country is to be charged in court soon, according to a document obtained from the Maldives’ Prosecutor General’s office.
Sri Lankan national Lahiru Madushanka and Maldivian nationals Ahmed Adeeb and Fazeel Hameed are accused of conspiring to murder Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen and will be charged under article 110, 82 and 86 of the Penal Code of the Maldives.
The charge does not carry the death penalty but if found guilty the men will face long jail terms in a remote island. The Prosecutor General’s Office in the Maldives has concluded that in October 2015, Ahmed Adeeb, Fazeel Hameed and some other people conspired to murder the President and searched for a gunman to complete the said act.
It is alleged that Lahiru Madushanka had been roped into carry out the act and had travelled to the Maldives to complete the task. He was recruited by Maldivian national Ishaq Hussain who runs a tailor shop. To get him down to the country, he was offered a job as a “tailor”.
Last week, Pakistan’s former Federal Minister for Human Rights and leading human rights and civil rights activist Ansar Burney pledged to intervene in Mr. Madushanka’s case after studying the legal documents related to this case.
Mr. Madushanka has been under detention since October last year in the Maldives for his alleged involvement in the assassination plot.