Maldives: Former president Mohamed Nasheed receives 2017 Geneva Summit Courage Award
Nasheed
Nasheed has been?living in self-exile in the United Kingdom under political asylum for over a year
Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheedreceived the 2017 Geneva Summit Courage Awardat the 9th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on Tuesday.
TheRightsAward was presented to Nasheed by former high commissioner of theOrganization for Security and Co-operation in Europe(OSCE),Astrid Thors, on behalf of thecoalition of 25 non-governmental human rights groups.
"To President Mohamed Nasheed, for inspiring the world with your extraordinary courage in the defense of liberty and universal human rights," Thors said while presenting the award.
" It is a great honor to receive this award,"said Nasheed, who thanked human rights lawyer Amal Clooney for helping infreeing him.
"It's very encouraging to see so many good people doing good work,We may stumble, we may fall, but I assure everyone, we will pick ourselves up and continue with the same work with more vigour than the past." He said.
The annual summit,held on the eve of the United Nations Human Rights Council's annual session, seeks to address the human rights issues around the world thatrequire global attention.
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Nasheedjoined topdissidents from Cuba, Russia, Turkey, Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Mauritania, Iran, Venezuela, who testified onabuses and urged the United NationsHuman Rights Council, which opens its annual session next week, to address the human rights records of their home nations.
Nasheed,who hasbeen charged with terrorism and sentenced to jail for 13 yearsover the abduction and arbitrary detention of a judge during his presidency, has beenliving in self-exile in the United Kingdom under political asylum for over a year.
(WION)