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Maldives top court rejects jailed ex-leader’s plea for eligibility to run again for president – Winnipeg Free Press
[ad_1] MALE, Maldives (AP) — The highest court in the Maldives on Sunday rejected a plea from the country’s jailed former president that he be made eligible to contest next month’s presidential election. Abdullah Yameen’s lawyers argued the former leader should be eligible to stand in the election because the corruption case that he was…