High Court has issued a stat order to delay the trial against former President Mohamed Nasheed held in the Hulhumale’ Magistrate Court until the conclusion of the case filed at the High Court by Nasheed regarding the legitimacy of Hulhumale’ Magistrate Court.While the High Court issued stay order to postpone Nasheed’s trial at the Hulhumale’ Magistrate Court Nasheed recently stated that his trial cannot continue without the conclusion of the three stages of appeal.

Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed was freed on Wednesday after his overnight detention sparked anti-government protests that led to the arrest of over 80 opposition activists, police said. The release of Nasheed, the country's first democratically elected leader, came after he was taken before a magistrate on charges of abusing his authority when he was in power between 2008 and 2012. "We produced him (before a judge) in court today as instructed by the magistrate and after today's hearing he was free to go," police spokesman Hassan Haneef told AFP.

Police in the Maldives said Wednesday they have arrested scores of opposition supporters protesting at the detention of former president Mohamed Nasheed before his court appearance on abuse of power charges. After the regional powerhouse India appealed for calm on all sides, a police spokesman said 79 people had been taken into custody for causing "disturbances" during protests on the main island of Male. The spokesman Hassan Haneef said 17 women were among those arrested on Male during protests which went on late into the night.

Police in the Maldives detained opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed on Tuesday, defying pressure from regional power India which had called for him to be free to campaign for elections. Twenty masked policemen in riot gear arrested Nasheed at his family home in the capital Male and one of his security men was hurt in the melee, Shauna Aminath, a spokeswoman for Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party, said. Police served no arrest warrant on the pro-democracy activist, who was the first freely elected president until last year, she said.