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triron

(21,999 posts) Thu Nov 22, 2018, 01:29 PM Nov 2018

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the Guardian: British academic sentenced to life imprisonment by UAE.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/21/british-academic-matthew-hedges-accused-of-spying-jailed-for-life-in-uae

Another victim of Trump's deceit and carelessness.

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the Guardian: British academic sentenced to life imprisonment by UAE. (Original Post) triron Nov 2018 OP

Just one of the reasons I left academic work in the UAE... Self-censorship became the order of the JCMach1 Nov 2018 #1

I may have missed something.... dixiegrrrrl Nov 2018 #2

JCMach1

(27,556 posts)

1. Just one of the reasons I left academic work in the UAE... Self-censorship became the order of the

Reply to triron (Original post)

Thu Nov 22, 2018, 01:38 PM

Nov 2018

day after the Arab Spring.

I got tired of working under a dictatorship regardless of how soft it was...

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

2. I may have missed something....

Reply to triron (Original post)

Thu Nov 22, 2018, 03:40 PM

Nov 2018

How is this tied in to Trump?

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