Mr. Ahmed Abbas

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  03:21PM: Reports state Mohamed Nasheed and Ahmed Abbas refusing to leave Dhoonidhoo until all detainees arrested yesterday and today are released. more
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  Exclusive pictures show how the police and the army forcefully dragged MDP Chairman and Councilor Abbas and others while protesting peacefully sitting in the middle of the Republican Square.
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  Male' - 16:38 - MDP Chairman, Jenniffer Latheef, Ahmed Abbas and several others have been forcefully dragged into the Police station eyewitnesses say.

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  Published on: 1/25/2007    Last Visited: 7/2/2007  

  Ahmed Abbas, the prominent political cartoonist and designer of Maldivian banknotes, is now facing a second disobedience charge, it has emerged.He appeared in Male's Criminal Court on Thursday at 11:30am, to be informed he now faces a second charge of "disobedience to order", which carries a 6 month prison sentence.
  
  This second charge surrounds events in June 2005 - the period when parliament was voting on whether to allow political parties in the Maldives.In the early house of 2 June there was a police swoop of opposition supporters and some were arrested and jailed over allegations they were planning protests.Abbas was also arrested and then released in the afternoon.
  
  On June 5, police again came to Abbas' house to deliver a notice summoning him for questioning.Police say he greeted them by shouting profanities and threatening the opposition would overthrow the government, and then continued to speak like that during questioning.
  
  Abbas denies he threatened to overthrow the government, and says he assumed the charges would relate to his complaints about pre-emptive arrest on the basis he might organise a protest.He complained that if police were to arrest him because he might organise a protest, they may as well castrate him just in case he might have extra-marital sex (zinay).
  
  Abbas has now been given three days to prepare his case and find a lawyer by Judge Abdul Muhusin, Gaaf Alifu, Nilhandoo court magistrate.
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  Abbas, who has been in prison since early November, was originally being charged with disobedience for a quote he gave to Minivan Daily newspaper, on August 2, 2005."What we should do to those in the Star Force [police] who beat us, is to seek them out individually and for us to act in such a manner that makes them feel that beatings result in pain, otherwise they will not be subdued," he was quoted as saying.
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  Abbas, who designed all the current Maldivian rufiyaa bank notes, has been labelled as a "prisoner of conscience" by human rights NGO, Amnesty International, who condemned the government's hard-line response to the planned November 10 demonstration.

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  Published on: 4/8/2007    Last Visited: 4/8/2007  

  Monday in Maldives, an appeal court rejected cartoonist Ahmed Abbas' appeal against his conviction on charges of "disobedience to order," according to a report from Reporters Without Borders (scroll to bottom).

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  Published on: 1/21/2007    Last Visited: 7/2/2007  

  Ahmed Abbas, the prominent political cartoonist and designer of Maldivian banknotes, was brought to court from Maafushi jail this morning for a case surrounding a quote he gave to Minivan Daily newspaper.
  
  His court appointment, which was scheduled for 9:30am at the High Court in Male', was postponed for a week after Abbas was unable to bring a lawyer.He was only informed of the court appointment in the middle of the night, and was given no means to contact his lawyer.
  
  Abbas, who has been imprisoned since early November, was quoted in the newspaper on August 2, 2005, saying: "What we should do to those in the Star Force [police] who beat us, is to seek them out individually and for us to act in such a manner that makes them feel that beatings result in pain, otherwise they will not be subdued."
  
  Abbas, who has been labelled as a "prisoner of conscience" by human rights NGO, Amnesty International, sensationally sought refuge in the UN building in the capital Male' on November 2 after being sentenced in absentia to 6 months imprisonment by the Government for inciting violence against police.

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  Published on: 1/17/2007    Last Visited: 7/2/2007  

  Today would have been the third court session in the trial, which focuses on a news story in which MDP member, Ahmed Abbas, is quoted as saying: "What we should do to those in the Star Force who beat us, is to seek them out individually and for us to act in such a manner that makes them feel that beatings result in pain, otherwise they will not be subdued."
  
  Abbas was jailed in early November in the run-up to an opposition mass protest which was cancelled for fear of excess violence.

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  One of them, Abdullah Saeed, has been in prison since March, while cartoonist, Ahmed Abbas, was arrested in November.

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  Published on: 3/11/2008    Last Visited: 6/26/2008  

  Allegations of unfair sentencing in absentia have surrounded cases such as that of Ahmed Abbas, an opposition cartoonist sentenced to six months' imprisonment in 2006 for "inciting violence" through a newspaper article.

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  Published on: 5/1/2007    Last Visited: 5/11/2007  

  Reporters Without Borders notes, "[Maldivian] cartoonist and opposition activist Ahmed Abbas was released from Maafushi prison on 3 May on completing a six-month sentence for saying in Minivan Daily that opposition activists should resist police violence."(Link via Tom Spurgeon.)

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  MALE, March 28 (RSF) -- The Maldives High Court on Monday rejected an appeal by cartoonist and opposition activist Ahmed Abbas against his conviction last November in absentia on a charge of "disobedience to order," for which he received a six-month prison sentence.
  
  His lawyer, Husnu Al-Suood, tried to argue that article 88 of the criminal code, under which the police can arrest anyone for "disobedience to order" without providing any further explanation, is unfair.

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  Published on: 1/22/2007    Last Visited: 6/8/2007  

  Cartoonist Ahmed Abbas, who's been languishing in a Maldivian prison since November for a comment made in opposition to violence by that country's police force, was brought to court Sunday morning, only to have his case postponed for a week when he was unable to arrange for legal counsel.As the Maldives' Minivan News reports, "He was only informed of the court appointment in the middle of the night, and was given no means to contact his lawyer."Amnesty International has declared Abbas to be a "prisoner of conscience."

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