COLOMBO: London-based human rights lawyer Amal Clooney will soon visit Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives whose incarceration has sparked widespread international condemnation, his office said on Thursday.

Clooney — who has notably defended Mohamed Fahmy, one of three Al-Jazeera journalists sentenced to jail in Egypt —will travel to the Egypt archipelago with her Washington-based co-counsel Jared Genser next week to meet Nasheed. The former president was in March sentenced to 13 years in jail on terror charges.

Clooney and Genser will “visit president Nasheed in Maafushi jail where he is currently being held”, the statement said, without giving the pair’s exact travel plans.