{"id":386682,"date":"2018-11-27T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uae-britain-spy-case-ridiculous-comical\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T23:04:11","slug":"presstv-uae-britain-spy-case-ridiculous-comical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uae-britain-spy-case-ridiculous-comical\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018UAE-Britain spy case ridiculous, comical\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A political analyst from London says the way the United Arab Emirates handled the case of a British spy was a real farce which showed how dependent and undecided the small Persian Gulf Arab state was in dealing with its own sovereignty and security.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Massoud Shadjareh, who chairs the UK-based Islamic Human Rights Commission, said in an interview with\u00a0Press TV on Monday that Abu Dhabi\u2019s decision earlier in the day to release Mathew Hedges, a young doctoral student convicted of espionage, was shocking considering that he\u00a0had been jailed for life just a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is so astonishing what has taken place, (it) really is so ridiculous this whole story from the beginning of it,\u201d said Shadjareh.<\/p>\n<p>The expert said it has always been a practice for the UAE to give British intelligence services a \u201ctotal open door\u201d to go to the country and \u201cdo whatever they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said\u00a0it was not clear why London had to go through a \u201cbackdoor\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/26\/581219\/UK-spy-case-UAE-expert-view\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political analyst from London says the way the United Arab Emirates handled the case of a British spy was a real farce which showed how dependent and undecided the small Persian Gulf Arab state was in dealing with its own sovereignty and security. Massoud Shadjareh, who chairs the UK-based Islamic Human Rights Commission, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}