Jailed former president on Wednesday slammed the court order which halted the publishing of the largest and only newspaper in the country.
Nasheed on Twitter insisted that as the dispute was over the business ownership of Haveeru and not the editorial, it should not affect the publishing of the newspaper.
“... Haveeru must be printed,” the tweet read.
Nasheed is serving 13 years in prison for the arbitrary arrest and subsequent detention of Chief Criminal Judge Abdulla Mohamed while he was president.
The court order issued on the request of the plaintiffs only applies for the print edition and does not include Haveeru Online.
The court also banned any financial transactions from the Haveeru bank accounts without the prior permission of the plaintiffs.
Ibrahim Rasheed Moosa and Abdulla Farooq had claimed shares from the profit received by Haveeru, stating that they are entitled to it based on an agreement that was signed amongst the two plaintiffs, Haveeru's Chairman Mohamed Zahir Hussain and Mohamed Naeem on March 31, 1983.
The Civil Court in 2014 had ruled against Moosa and Farooq insisting that they cannot claim any shares from Haveeru newspaper and its subsidiary Loamaafaanu Print.
The case was closed after Judge Nihayath claimed that there are no grounds to prove that the plaintiffs are entitled to any profits obtained by Haveeru newspaper and its printing agency.
However, the case was appealed at the High Court which annulled the lower court’s verdict in a contentious ruling which said the two plaintiffs were part owners of Haveeru as part of the original agreement.
The parties failed to arrive at an amicable agreement at the dispute resolution stage when the case went back to the Civil Court.
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