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11-23-2018, 06:32 PM
UAE says pardon for Matthew Hedges will be considered in context of close UK relations and could happen next week
Optimism that Matthew Hedges, the British academic jailed for life in the United Arab Emirates, will be released next week grew on Friday after the Hedges family pleaded for clemency, and the UAE said a pardon would be considered in the context of close British-UAE relations.
If nothing changes, it is likely Hedges will be released next Thursday, the UAE National Day and a time when traditionally as many as 1,000 people jailed for a range of offences are granted a pardon by the president. Even as Hedges’ wife, Daniela Tejada, told the Guardian of the couple’s “nightmarish” six months since he was arrested, there was optimism on both sides that a pardon was imminent.
Continue reading... (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/23/hopes-grow-for-release-of-uk-academic-matthew-hedges-jailed-for-life-in-uae)
Optimism that Matthew Hedges, the British academic jailed for life in the United Arab Emirates, will be released next week grew on Friday after the Hedges family pleaded for clemency, and the UAE said a pardon would be considered in the context of close British-UAE relations.
If nothing changes, it is likely Hedges will be released next Thursday, the UAE National Day and a time when traditionally as many as 1,000 people jailed for a range of offences are granted a pardon by the president. Even as Hedges’ wife, Daniela Tejada, told the Guardian of the couple’s “nightmarish” six months since he was arrested, there was optimism on both sides that a pardon was imminent.
Continue reading... (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/23/hopes-grow-for-release-of-uk-academic-matthew-hedges-jailed-for-life-in-uae)