EA with Radio FM4: UAE’s Life Sentence for UK Academic Hedges

Posted by Scott Lucas | Nov 22, 2018 | 0

On Wednesday the UAE imposed a life sentence on UK academic Matthew Hedges after a five-minute trial, with Hedges’ lawyer absent.

I spoke with Austria’s Radio FM4 on Thursday about the UAE’s motives in announcing the sentence now, after Hedges’ detention since May.

Listen from 12:16

Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been flexing their muscles — political, quasi-legal, and military — versus the West to show their authority and it appears that Matthew Hedges has been caught up in this power politics.

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Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

EA with Radio FM4: UAE’s Life Sentence for UK Academic Hedges

On Wednesday the UAE imposed a life sentence on UK academic Matthew Hedges after a five-minute trial, with Hedges’ lawyer absent.

Listen from 12:16

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