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UAE pardons British academic jailed for life on spying charges

The UAE president issued a pardon as part of the country's National Day, effective immediately

British academic Matthew Hedges
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British academic Matthew Hedges. Photo: Reuters

Reuters Dubai
The United Arab Emirates on Monday pardoned a British academic jailed for life on spying charges, granting his family's request for clemency minutes after showing a video of him purportedly confessing to being a member of UK intelligence agency MI6.

The UAE president issued the pardon as part of a mass clemency of more than 700 prisoners to mark the country's National Day, according to a statement carried by state news agency WAM.

The pardon was effective immediately and Matthew Hedges, a 31-year-old doctoral student at Durham University held for more than six months, will be allowed to leave the country "once

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