Maldives tourism officials will have welcomed news that its High Court has overturned the sentence of a 15-year-old girl who was due to receive 100 lashes for engaging in premarital sex.
The case led to a major human rights campaign on social media, which called for a boycott of the destination.
The girl was raped by her stepfather, who is also accused of killing the child she bore.
A petition on global campaign site Avaaz.org got millions of supporters.
The campaign gained massive support throughout the world, including high profile figures like Sir Richard Branson.
The High Court ruled this week that the girl, whose stepfather is on trial for raping her, had been wrongly convicted by a juvenile court.
In said the sentence of the lower court was based on a confession the girl made while she was suffering post-traumatic stress disorder.
