Mohamed Nasheed is a Maldivian politician, human rights and environmental activist who was elected president of the Maldives in 2008 but resigned from office in early 2012 in what he characterized as a coup d’état. Nasheed attended grammar school in Male before attending schools in Colombo, Sri Lanka (1981–82), and in West Lavington, Wiltshire, England (1982–84). He received a bachelor’s degree in maritime studies from Liverpool John Moores University in 1989. In March 2015, Nasheed was convicted under the Anti-Terrorism Act of Maldives for arresting Criminal Court Judge Abdulla Mohamed while president and sentenced to 13 years at Maafushi Prison. Amnesty International has described the conviction as “politically motivated”. In 2016, Nasheed was given asylum in the United Kingdom, where he had gone for medical treatment.