MALDIVES A GWAAN WID TINGS

(CNN) — Police attacked the former Maldives president Wednesday, beating him up a day after he stepped down, the Maldivian Democratic Party said in a statement.
“We strongly condemned the violent attack by the Maldivian Police Service on President (Mohamed) Nasheed and senior officials of the MDP,” the party said in a statement. “President Nasheed is being beaten up as of now in an ongoing peaceful protest.”
Earlier Wednesday, Nasheed had called for his successor to leave office, saying he was forced to resign in a coup.
Nasheed resigned Tuesday after a revolt by police officers. Vice President Mohammed Waheed Hassan was sworn in as president shortly after Nasheed resigned.
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Nasheed and the Maldivian Democratic Party are calling his forced resignation a coup, said Eva Abdulla, a member of Parliament.
Police also attacked other party leaders and members of Parliament Wednesday, the party said.
Abudulla said police had stormed into hospitals and were beating people there.
Nasheed was the first democratically-elected president of the Indian Ocean nation in three decades.
In a nationally televised address, he said he was stepping down because he didn’t feel he was able to maintain security and peace in the country, which attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year.
Strategically located in the Indian Ocean but extremely poor, the country is threatened by rising sea levels.
Nasheed once held a Cabinet meeting underwater, with ministers wearing scuba gear, to highlight the problem.