UAE: Presidential pardon defuses Hedges affair, banks ‘resilient’


Risk Management Reports
Issue 1070 - 29 Nov 2018 | 4 minute read

Prisoner pardons: The UAE defused a damaging row with the UK on 26 November by issuing a presidential pardon to British researcher Matthew Hedges, who had been given a life sentence for espionage a few days earlier. The pardon was one of 785 issued in the name of President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, part of the usual wave of early releases announced ahead of National Day on 2 December.

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