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Maldives Prez seeks approval to extend state of emergency
short by Nandini Sinha / on Tuesday, 20 February, 2018
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom asked the Parliament on Monday to extend the state of emergency by 30 days amid the political unrest in the country, officials said. Gayoom had declared a 15-day state of emergency on February 5 under which the security forces were given sweeping powers to arrest and detain suspects.
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