The "president" of the Maldive Islands arrested judges to stop the Supreme Court from freeing imprisoned legislators.

The elected president Masheed campaigned globally to curb global heating. I suspect that oil interests helped arrange the coup against him.

If global heating goes far enough, the questions of democracy and human rights in the Maldives will cease to matter. Long before they are entirely inundated, they will be unable to support their population. The rulers, however, will probably get the chance to move elsewhere.