Former Attorney General and the current Head of the Presidential Commission Investigating Disappearances and Deaths, Husnu Al Suood, has congratulated Maumoon Hameed on his election win to become the president of the Bar Council.

In a tweet send out yesterday, Suood sent his best wishes in moving forward to uplift the Maldivian legal profession to with the expectations of the lawyers.

At the Bar Council election yesterday, the third Attorney General during the Presidency of Mohamed Nasheed, Abdulla Muizzu was elected at the Vice President of the Council. The Executive Committee of the Bar Council consists of the former MP for Makunudhoo constituency, Anara Naeem, Former Prosecutor General, Mohamed Muizzu, MDP Secretary General Anas Abdul Sattar, former Judge at the Civil Court, Aisha Sujoon and Mohamed Faisal along with Mohamed Aseel Hassan.