{"id":381202,"date":"2018-10-16T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uae-charges-british-student-with-spying\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:50:30","slug":"presstv-uae-charges-british-student-with-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uae-charges-british-student-with-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UAE charges British student with \u2018spying\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has charged\u00a0a British Ph.D. student with \u201cspying,\u201d five months after he was detained and reportedly held in solitary confinement in the Persian Gulf Arab country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Hedges, a 31-year-old who was researching the UAE\u2019s foreign and internal security policies after the 2011 uprisings in dictatorially-ruled Arab countries, was arrested at Dubai airport on May 5 as he was leaving the country following a research trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Attorney General of United Arab Emirates&#8230; confirmed today that Mr. Matthew Hedges, a British Citizen, has been charged with spying for and on behalf of a foreign State, jeopardizing the military, economy, and political security of the UAE,\u201d the government said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what foreign state Hedges had been charged with spying for.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general, Hamad al-Shamsi, claimed the charges were \u201cbased on legal evidence and findings from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/16\/577145\/Emirates-UAE-British-student-spying\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has charged\u00a0a British Ph.D. student with \u201cspying,\u201d five months after he was detained and reportedly held in solitary confinement in the Persian Gulf Arab country. Matthew Hedges, a 31-year-old who was researching the UAE\u2019s foreign and internal security policies after the 2011 uprisings in dictatorially-ruled Arab countries, was arrested at [&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-381202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}