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A British academic, who was detained in the United Arab Emirates two years ago on spying charges, has launched legal action against a number of senior officials from the Gulf state, accusing them of assault, torture and false imprisonment. Matthew Hedges returned to Britain in November 2018 after more than six months in detention after he was pardoned from a life sentence for espionage. His release came after the UAE had released a video of him purporting to confess to being a member of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency. This week, lawyers for Hedges filed papers at London’s High Court against four UAE security officials, including the then head of State Security Public Prosecution in Abu Dh

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