Bangladeshi expatriates in Maldives have been urged to exercise due caution in public and avoid public gatherings over the political crisis in the country.
The Bangladesh embassy in Maldives urged this in an advisory on Monday after the President Abdulla Yameen declared a 15-day state of emergency.
This will give sweeping powers to security forces to arrest and detain suspects, and comes amid a deepening political crisis in the Indian Ocean nation as Yameen refuses to comply with a Supreme Court order to release political prisoners.
The Maldivian Supreme Court, in a significant development, had last week ordered the immediate release of former president Mohamed Nasheed and other opposition leaders.