Matthew Hedges, jailed for life and pardoned on spying charges, says there has been ‘total lack of redress’
Matthew Hedges, the British academic convicted on spying charges by the United Arab Emirates after travelling to Dubai to conduct research, is suing four senior officials from the Gulf state he alleges were complicit in falsely imprisoning and torturing him.
Hedges was detained in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from for seven months in 2018 before being pardoned from a life sentence for spying.
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