The Opposition expresses concern after lawyers of former President Abdullah Yameen were denied access to their client who is serving an 11-year jail sentence at Maafushi Jail.
PPM said that Yameen's legal team went to Maafushi jail as they were allocated a time slot for their meeting but were then denied access to their client upon their reach at the jail.
The Opposition accused Home Minister Imran Abdullah of hindering the meeting and went on to condemn the decision by the Corrections officers.
But comments from former Vice President Mohamed Jameel Ahmed who is on Yameen's legal team revealed that the lawyers were denied access to their client because they refused to let the Prison officers check the files they had taken into the meeting.
In a tweet, Jameel said that Prison officers were ordered to go through the lawyers' files and that they were eager to read documents on the constitutional motion filed on behalf of the former President. He questioned how there would be peace in the country.
The constitutional motion the ex-Vice President was referring to is the one the Opposition filed yesterday at the Supreme Court claiming that Yameen's electoral rights have been denied because of the stalled appeal case at the High Court.
The appeal case at the High Court relates to the appeal filed on behalf of Yameen after he was found guilty of money laundering and accepting bribes last year by the Criminal Court.
