[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 53 (Thursday, April 7, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S1795]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE PROSECUTION AND 
   CONVICTION OF FORMER PRESIDENT MOHAMED NASHEED WITHOUT DUE PROCESS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 402, S. Res. 
392.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 392) expressing the sense of the 
     Senate regarding the prosecution and conviction of former 
     President Mohamed Nasheed without due process and urging the 
     Government of the Maldives to take all necessary steps to 
     redress this injustice, to release all political prisoners, 
     and to ensure due process and freedom from political 
     prosecution for all the people of the Maldives.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I further ask unanimous consent that 
the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions 
to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no 
intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 392) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  (The resolution, with its preamble, is printed in the Record of March 
8, 2016, under ``Submitted Resolutions.'')

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