British Academic Matthew Hedges Back Home After UAE Spy Case Pardon

British Academic Matthew Hedges Back Home After UAE Spy Case Pardon
British academic Matthew Hedges in an undated photo supplied by his wife Daniela Tejada. Daniela Tejada/Handout via Reuters
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LONDON—British academic Matthew Hedges arrived back in the UK on Nov. 27 and thanked his “brave and strong” wife for helping secure his release, nearly seven months after he was detained in the United Arab Emirates on espionage charges.

Hedges arrived at London’s Heathrow airport early in the morning on a flight from Dubai, a day after the UAE pardoned him from a life sentence in the spying case.