{"id":22944,"date":"2018-11-23T12:24:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T12:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22944"},"modified":"2018-11-23T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T12:24:01","slug":"uae-considers-clemency-request-after-british-student-jailed-for-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22944","title":{"rendered":"UAE considers clemency request after British student jailed for spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>The UAE says it is considering a request to pardon Matthew Hedges, the British PhD student handed a life sentence for espionage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a statement on Friday, the UAE ambassador to the UK, Sulaiman Hamid Almazroui, said Hedges&#8217; family had filed a request for clemency with the Emirati authorities. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Hedges, 31, was sentenced on Thursday<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/21\/uk\/briton-matthew-hedges-spy-uae-prison-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> after a five-minute hearing, <\/a>in a development that appeared to take British authorities by surprise.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)The UAE says it is considering a request to pardon Matthew Hedges, the British PhD student handed a life sentence for espionage.In a statement on Friday, the UAE ambassador to the UK, Sulaiman Hamid Almazroui, said Hedges&#8217; family had filed a request for clemency with the Emirati authorities. Hedges, 31, was sentenced on Thursday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}