Https, May 22 -- Speaker of the Parliament Mohamed Nasheed has stated that the imprisonment of former President Abdulla Yameen alone is not just.

Nasheed and the former President Yameen are seen as staunch political rivals. Yameen was jailed after being found guilty of money laundering in trail described as a sham by the opposition.

The handwritten statement by Nasheed was shared on a Whatsapp group of the governing MDP.

Nasheed, who is also a former President, in the statement, said that he did not support the ideology nor the actions of Yameen. He said that the imprisonment of "just Yameen" for the MMPRC scandal was something "he saw as justice".

"We said that we will investigate the crimes of treachery in the previous administratio...