Matthew Hedges, 31, denied spying and said he had been researching his PhD. His wife, Daniela Tejada, who appealed for clemency, said she was "elated" and "can't wait to have him back home".

Four years before Matthew Hedges was wrongfully incarcerated for espionage by the UAE, David Haigh was unlawfully detained in the same authoritarian country for 22 months. ...

But who is he? Matthew Hedges is no stranger to the Middle East. He had spent time there when he was younger and had worked in the region for several years. But on a research trip for his PhD in ...

FRISCO, Tex. – For Matt Hedges, the US national team's 2018 World Cup qualifiers earlier this month were only the beginning. Even though the FC Dallas center back didn’t play against Mexico at ...

Matthew Hedges, a PhD student at Durham University, has been held in solitary confinement after being accused of spying, according to the Times. His wife said his rights were being "violated on a ...

Matthew Hedges was accused of "spying for and on behalf of a foreign state", the UAE government said on Monday. The 31-year-old PhD student at Durham University was arrested on 5 May in Dubai and ...

There's condemnation in many of the papers of the treatment of British academic Matthew Hedges, who was jailed after being convicted of spying in the United Arab Emirates. The Times, which leads ...

Matthew Hedges and Ali Issa Ahmad both claimed they were subjected to torture while under arrest in the Gulf state in 2018 and 2019 respectively. Mr Hedges had sued four Emirati officials ...

Durham University PhD student Matthew Hedges has reportedly been held in solitary confinement for five months. Daniela Tejada said requests to meet Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt had not received a ...

The cadre of MLS vets signed in the offseason – Matt Hedges, Sean Johnson, Mark-Anthony Kaye, Adama Diomande, Víctor Vázquez – moved the needle not one iota, and some are already gone.