But the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says the exact circumstances surrounding his arrest remain unclear.
They are not the only ones still waiting for information, reports the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo.
The Russians are gathering at the comfortable, bohemian farmhouse of Lucia Davidova, (Haviland Morris, quietly resonant), in rural Westport, Conn.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Islamabad says the PPP has other parties in the coalition and the government will not fall.
But the situation was straining relations with the Maldives' giant neighbour, prompting Delhi to send a special envoy, says the BBC's correspondent Charles Haviland.
Diplomatic sources said, however, that they did not know of any animosity between Mr Nasheed and the victim, reports the BBC's Charles Haviland in Male.
Muslims make up less than 10% of the population and have generally good relations with the Sinhalese Buddhist majority, says the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says these were the biggest overtly political disturbances in the north since the war ended more than three years ago.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that after the vote, supporters of the government took to the streets and rallied outside her official residence to celebrate her sacking.
Mr Nasheed has pulled off a typically flamboyant stunt, leaving the capital island on a flotilla of boats chartered by his party to go campaigning in outlying islands, reports the BBC's Charles Haviland in Male.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that impeachment will have unpredictable consequences because the government is pressing ahead with it in defiance of orders from both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that the president's rhetoric was triumphant: he said his country should be declared the "pride of Asia" for destroying "the world's most savage terrorist leader" in the space of less than three years.
However he acknowledged that Mr Peiris was the country's "de facto chief justice" and that the body would have to work alongside him in the future so it did not "let down" its clients, says the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo.
There is now a possibility that she may refuse to quit, as Sri Lanka's highest courts - the Supreme Court and the Appeal Court - last month quashed the impeachment process as irregular and illegal, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo reports.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that although the US calls Mr Fonseka a political prisoner, once he is free he could find himself scrutinised just as much on human rights issues as the country's political leaders with whom he fell out dramatically.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that the former chief justice was able to tell journalists from her car as she left home that her life and those of her husband and son were in danger, despite police attempts to stop her speaking.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that it appears that the maid's passport was falsified to give her age as 23 when she went to Saudi Arabia - other documents said to be genuine show that in fact she was only 17 and therefore a child.
But the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that some relatives have apparently been kept in the dark - one family told a newspaper they only got official information on their son's arrest a long time after he disappeared, and only after they informed the official human rights body.
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