UAE jails UK academic for life for spying

By Aziz El Yaakoubi, Katie Paul and Maha El Dahan
Updated November 22 2018 - 2:16am, first published 2:15am

A UAE court has sentenced British academic Matthew Hedges to life in prison on charges of spying for the British government, his family and a state-run newspaper say.

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