Matthew Hedges: pardoned academic returns to UK
 

Durham University student lands at Heathrow a day after being freed from UAE jail

The British academic Matthew Hedges has returned to the UK, a day after he was pardoned and released in the United Arab Emirates after being sentenced to life in prison for spying.

The UAE released Hedges, 31, on Monday after showing a video of him apparently confessing to being a member of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency. Britain denied he was a spy and welcomed his release.

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