Thousands of people marched in the Maldives on Friday in support of the ousted former former president Mohamed Nasheed. Nasheed took refuge in the Indian embassy last week to evade arrest on a warrant. He is facing charges of illegally ordering the arrest of a judge appointed by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who ruled the Maldives for 30 years before Nasheed became its first democratically elected president in 2008. Nasheed was ousted last year year in what he has described as a coup at gunpoint by Gayoom’s supporters. Nasheed is well known internationally for his activism around the issue of global warming, which he says threatens the survival of his small island country.