Putting the bookish behind bars

摘要

AFTER FIVE months in solitary confinement, his final court appearance lasted barely five minutes. On November 21st a court in Abu Dhabi convicted a British academic of espionage and sentenced him to life in prison. Matthew Hedges, 31, is a doctoral candidate at Durham University. He travelled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) earlier this year to study its internal security policies. He became an unwilling participant in his own research in May when police arrested him at Dubai's airport.