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UK criticised over response to academic's UAE detention

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman says British academic Matthew Hedges must be payed £1,500 in compensation and get an apology from the UK government. – EPA pic, August 3, 2023.

UK GOVERNMENT officials “missed signs” that British acadamic Matthew Hedges might have been tortured while detained in Abu Dhabi in 2018, and should apologise and compensate him, a watchdog ruled today. Hedges, who had travelled to the United Arab Emirates to carry out research for his PhD, claimed he was kept in solitary confinement, interrogated and forcibly given medicine during his six-month detention.

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