Maldives top court on Monday upheld the prison sentence handed to former president Mohamed Nasheed for the arbitrary detention of a sitting judge while he was president.
Supreme Court upheld the state inititated final appeal of Nasheed's 13 year prison sentence.
Prosecutors had asked the top court for a ruling on Nasheed's sentence after the High Court had also backed the Criminal Court verdict.
Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in prison on controversial terrorism charges last year but was allowed to travel to Britain for surgery in January and granted political asylum in May.
The Maldives has been rocked by political turmoil in recent years, with almost all of incumbent president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom's key rivals jailed or exiled.
Yameen -- who defeated Nasheed in a controversial election run-off in November 2013 -- has resisted international pressure to free the former president and has refused to accept a UN panel ruling that his jailing last year was illegal.
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