When it comes to Amal Clooney, there's no doubt that she's had her fair share of ups and downs--especially when it comes to her career--but it looks like she's already won her first battle of the year. A new report says the International Human Rights Lawyer was successful in getting her client, jailed ex-president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, to London to undergo back surgery.

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According to NBC News, Amal helped orchestrate negotiations to allow Nasheed to travel to the United Kingdom. Unfortunately though, his lawyers said the government was insisting a relative stay behind and sign a document that would subject the relative to criminal prosecution if Nasheed did not return

Still, Amal herself sees this as a huge success.

"I was delighted to speak to President Nasheed for the first time in months today, and to see him board a flight out of the Maldives," she said in a statement. "I am very relieved that he will now be able to obtain the medical treatment that he so urgently needs in the U.K. I thank all the members of the international community who have helped to bring about this result."

Nasheed was the president of the popular tourist destination for three years before he was allegedly forced to leave his office during a gunpoint coup, yet the current government says he left voluntarily. Amal last week told NBC News in an interview that "democracy is dead" in the Maldives. She is pushing the Obama administration to impose travel bans and asset freezes on their regime leaders.

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