Ex-Maldives president: I may be facing 40 charges The former leader also spoke to Reuters news agency. "The home minister has pledged (I will be) the first former president to spend all my life in jail," he said today. He said he hope the international community would act quickly as "the facts on the ground are that tomorrow I will be in jail." Foreign Office minister Alastair Burt is understood to have spoken to President Nasheed by telephone yesterday, according to senior Conservative Party sources, amid growing concern for his fate following the police-led coup against his government on Tuesday. Britain's Conservatives have long-standing links with President Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party and several Tory officials have worked for him as advisors. The statement was issued today as Mr Nasheed and his supporters waited at their family home for police to arrive to arrest him and his defence minister Tholhath Ibrahim. We have been told by our own sources that the police are on their way here now and have ordered my brother's arrest. The home minister has been on live television saying there is an order for his arrest," the ousted president's brother Ibrahim said. Mr Nasheed was taken into "protective custody" before being released yesterday afternoon, but was re-arrested briefly later the same day after a series of violent clashes between his supporters and riot police who mounted heavy baton charges and fired tear gas canisters. Video footage has emerged of police taking him into custody in a corner shop. According to his brother, more than 200 people were arrested, including around 30 MDP MPs and senior officials. Mr Nasheed was jostled by police during his arrest yesterday and suffered slight injuries, while other supporters suffered serious head wounds and were treated in hospital. MDP sources said there will be more demonstrations today and that they expect further clashes with the police.