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PRESIDENT ZUMA FREEZES TUITIONS FEES FOR SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS AMID PROTEST

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>South African President Jacob Zuma has ruled out any increases in university tuition fees for next year after more than a week of protests by students.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>They have been the biggest student protests to hit the country since apartheid ended in 1994.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The students had rejected an earlier government offer to cap increases at 6%, down from the 10% to 12% proposed by the management of universities.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mr Zuma announced the move as students gathered by his office in the capital</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Before he spoke in a TV address, police had been using stun grenades and water cannon to stop a group of students breaking into the Union Buildings, the seat of government in Pretoria.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The demonstrations have closed some of the country's top universities.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"We agreed that there will be a zero increase of university fees in 2016," Mr Zuma said<span style="line-height: 1.375;"> after meeting university officials and student representatives.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"In the long term, there is a package of issues that was raised at the meeting that needs to be followed up - these include free education, institutional autonomy [and] racism."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>President Zuma's agreement to freeze all university increases to meet the demands of the #FeesMustFall campaign will be welcomed by those who have been at the forefront of this student movement, unprecedented since the end of apartheid.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>But the decision could have been taken much earlier. The protests have been going on for a little over a week. If it had been, we could have avoided the stun grenades and tear gas, which were fired at student protesters here at the Union Buildings.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The protests have cut across South Africa's deep political divide: Black and white, rich and poor stood side by side. No political parties were involved. This is taking the country in a new direction of organic, popular protest, likely to play into next year's local government elections.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The hashtag #FeesHaveFallen is now trending across the country, but I doubt this will be the end of the problems facing South Africa's students.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>President Zuma's agreement to freeze all university increases to meet the demands of the #FeesMustFall campaign will be welcomed by those who have been at the forefront of this student movement, unprecedented since the end of apartheid.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>But the decision could have been taken much earlier. The protests have been going on for a little over a week. If it had been, we could have avoided the stun grenades and tear gas, which were fired at student protesters here at the Union Buildings.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The protests have cut across South Africa's deep political divide: Black and white, rich and poor stood side by side. No political parties were involved. This is taking the country in a new direction of organic, popular protest, likely to play into next year's local government elections.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The hashtag #FeesHaveFallen is now trending across the country, but I doubt this will be the end of the problems facing South Africa's students.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>It is unclear how the freeze on South African university fees will be funded, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Max Price, told the BBC after attending meeting with the president.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The government said it did not know how much they would pay or where the money would come from, he added.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Local media reported that police fired rubber bullets to drive protesters away from the grounds around the president's office.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>During the protests, universities said they needed to increase fees to maintain standards, a they had been hit by a fall by in government subsidies.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Correspondents say the protests have shown the growing disillusionment with the governing African National Congress (ANC), which took power after minority rule ended in 1994, over high levels of poverty, unemployment and corruption in government.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Many black students say they come from poor families, and the fee increases would rob them of the opportunity to continue studying.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Financially better-off white students have also joined in, mainly to show solidarity with the black students.</b></span></div>
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PRESIDENT ZUMA FREEZES TUITIONS FEES FOR SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS AMID PROTEST

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ISRAEL AND JORDAN STRIKE DEAL IN JERUSALEM HOLY SITE

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Israel and Jordan have agreed on moves aimed at reducing tensions surrounding a prominent holy site in Jerusalem, US Secretary of State John Kerry says.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Issues relating to the complex have been at the centre of fresh violence between Israelis and Palestinians.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mr Kerry was speaking after talks in Jordan, the formal custodian of what is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and as Haram al-Sharif to Muslims.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>He said Israel had renewed a pledge to maintain existing rules there.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In the latest upsurge of violence, at least eight Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in knife or gun attacks by Palestinians, following rumours that Israel was planning to change the rules - something Israel denies.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>About 50 Palestinians, including several of the attackers, have been killed in recent weeks.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">'First step'</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mr Kerry, who is on a tour of the region, met Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan in Amman on Saturday.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"All the violence and the incitement to violence must stop. Leaders must lead,'' Mr Kerry told reporters.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The steps he announced include round-the-clock video monitoring and Israel's agreement to reaffirm Jordan's historic role as custodian of the religious complex.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"There are serious additional issues, security and otherwise, between Israelis and Palestinians that must be addressed but we've agreed that this is a first step to creating some space in order to allow us to resume those steps and that dialogue," he said</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mr Kerry met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, and said the talks had raised ideas that were worth exploring.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Later on Saturday, Mr Kerry will travel to Saudi Arabia for talks with regional leaders.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In the latest violence, Israeli police said they shot dead a Palestinian attacker in the northern West Bank early on Saturday.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"A terrorist, who arrived armed with a knife, tried to stab a security guard at the site. In response, the terrorist was shot by the security force," it said, according to AFP news agency.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is happening between Israelis and Palestinians?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>There has been a spate of stabbings of Israelis and some shootings - several of them fatal - by Palestinians since early October, and one apparent revenge stabbing by an Israeli. The attackers have struck in Jerusalem and across Israel, and in the occupied West Bank. Israel has tightened security and its security forces have clashed with rioting Palestinians, leading to deaths on the Palestinian side. The violence has also spread to the border with Gaza.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What's behind the latest unrest?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>After a period of relative quiet, violence between the two communities has spiralled since clashes erupted at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site in mid-September. It was fuelled by rumours among Palestinians that Israel was attempting to alter a long-standing religious arrangement governing the site. Israel repeatedly dismissed the rumours as incitement. Soon afterwards, two Israelis were shot dead by Palestinians in the West Bank and the stabbing attacks began. Both Israel and the Palestinian authorities have accused one another of doing nothing to protect each other's communities.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is this a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>There have been two organised uprisings by Palestinians against Israeli occupation, in the 1980s and early 2000s. With peace talks moribund, some observers have questioned whether we are now seeing a third. The stabbing attacks seem to be opportunistic and although they have been praised by militant groups, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation.</b></span></div>
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ISRAEL AND JORDAN STRIKE DEAL IN JERUSALEM HOLY SITE

Israel and Jordan have agreed on moves aimed at reducing tensions surrounding a prominent holy site in Jerusalem, US Secretary of State ...

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MALDIVES VICE-PRESIDENT ADEEB ARRESTED OVER PLOTTING TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT

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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The vice-president of the Maldives has been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate the president, say police and officials.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Ahmed Adeeb was in detention and being charged with high treason, Home Minister Umar Naseer <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://twitter.com/UmarNaseerPPM?lang=en-gb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">said on Twitter</a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>President Abdulla Yameen <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34377404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">narrowly escaped injury when a blast struck the boat</a> he was using to return home from the airport late last month.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In recent years, the Maldives has been rocked by political infighting.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mr Yameen's election has been the subject of drawn-out wrangling.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Security has been tightened in the capital Male amid fears of "turmoil" triggered by the arrest, <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/63351" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">says the Maldivian newspaper Haveeru</a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"By early morning Saturday, lorries loaded with policemen and soldiers were seen on nearly every street," it reports.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Three others were also arrested on Saturday - including a former member of Adeeb's security detail and a member of the army's bomb squad, Associated Press news agency reported.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://maldivesindependent.com/politics/maldives-vice-president-arrested-118825" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Maldives Independent website said Mr Adeeb's arrest</a> had "surprised and enthralled many Maldivians".</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><img alt="Officials carry an injured woman off the speedboat of Maldives President Abdulla Yameen (not pictured) after an explosion onboard, in Male, Maldives on 28 September 2015" src="http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/BFF4/production/_86304194_86304191.jpg" /></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>President Yameen and his wife were travelling to Male from the island where the airport is located on 28 September when their speedboat was hit by the bomb blast.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>They had been to the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The president was unhurt, but his wife and and a number of others were injured when the device went off under a seat normally - but not in this instance - occupied by Mr Yameen.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Soon after the blast, speculation began to grow that Mr Adeeb was involved, reports say. Under the Maldivian constitution, the vice-president succeeds the president if he dies, is incapacitated or resigns.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Officials described the attack as an assassination attempt and had arrested two senior police officers - a week after the president fired his defence minister.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>But on Saturday Mr Adeeb too was arrested at the airport as he returned from an official overseas visit "on suspicion of involvement in the boat blast", police spokesman Ismail Ali told AP.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Home Minister Naseer said he was being held on a prison island.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mr Adeeb, who has denied any links to the explosion, had only been vice-president for three months.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>He came to office when the previous vice-president was sacked by Mr Yameen, also on charges of treason.</b></span></div>
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<li class="story-body__list-item" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; list-style: square outside; margin: 18px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Abdulla Yameen </span>- became president after <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24942011" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2013 elections that were plagued with problems.</a> He is the half-brother of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom</b></span></li>
<li class="story-body__list-item" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; list-style: square outside; margin: 18px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mohamed Nasheed </span>- the country's first democratically elected president, he was forced to step down in 2012 in what he described as a coup. Now serving a 13-year sentence <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-31881207" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">under anti-terror laws</a></b></span></li>
<li class="story-body__list-item" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; list-style: square outside; margin: 18px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ahmed Adeeb</span> - <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34625558" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">vice-president charged with treason</a> in October 2015 in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate President Yameen</b></span></li>
<li class="story-body__list-item" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; list-style: square outside; margin: 18px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maumoon Abdul Gayoom </span>- was Asia's longest serving leader until his 30 years of autocratic rule came to an end in 2008</b></span></li>
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