So what is your thoughts on this episode? Life sentence for spying, signing stuff without lawyers present and all he was doing was a thesis or was he? Wife had a lot to say about foreign office failures for her hubby, Jeremy Hunt is involved now, don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing, always had the man down as a ****ing idiot with the nhs badge.. When they mention Mr Hedges wife btw they always mention her with her maiden name, Daniela Tejada? I mean when you got married the lass always took the husband's name or are the media trying to stir something here? Bad craic like 25 years in prison but something tells me there's more to this. 31 years old and still fannying around with Uni stuff, really?
Have to say the "defence" seems suss. He happened to do a PhD thesis on what?? Hard to tell with these things. Being Pakistani I knew about malala before she got shot. Her old man is the real culprit (basically a communist who wanted to establish communist based schools which he failed to do in Afghanistan) He used his daughters social media to be a bit if a twat tbh. Even when she was very young and clearly not writing the stuff No reason to shoot the lass like but the story isn't the whole "women's education" as portrayed and his Mrs is only just learning to read and write in Birmingham The woman in Iran with the young baby has also got some "issues" with what she was actually doing from what I understand But I don't think we will hear about it I heard today that a man has been sentenced to death in China as he went to hajj. But it's not been on the news whereas the Asia case has been headlines This isn't a slight on the individuals by the way, just that we are fed what folk want rather than the truth
I've read a few articles about it, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of detail. Who was he supposed to have been spying for? The UK? It doesn't seem to have been confirmed. His twitter's quite political and a lot of it is about the Middle East: https://twitter.com/mhedgesh?lang=en Maybe he pissed someone off or gave them reason to believe that he was working for someone that he shouldn't have been? He's also not supposed to be able to read Arabic, but has retweeted Arabic comments. His relationship with his missus seems a little strange, too. They rarely seem to have been in the same country. Her Linkedin profile suggests that she's well traveled and speaks a lot of languages, too. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/daniela-tejada Maybe anyone looks a bit weird from this perspective, though.
It's all about weird from what little I know too tbh The papers said he in the country conducting research on the UAE's security strategy for his PhD thesis Not being funny but if I did the same in say USA In would expect at least a few hours questioning
I don't think there's any more to it than what's being presented. A PHD student has been in the UAE researching their internal security strategy as part of his wider doctorate and somebody has taken exception to that and tried to stitch him up on espionage charges. Without wanting to make sweeping generalisations, some of these Gulf countries, whilst being rich and technologically advanced have got some pretty antiquated and draconian judiciary systems. Look at some of the brutal treatment that's handed out by the Saudi's. And (whilst geographically different) Look at how the Iranians have locked up that British/Iranian woman on similar trumped up charges of Spying. There's a rule in the UAE that if you're a foreign national and you're involved in a car accident, then it is immediately your fault, by virtue of the fact that had you not been in the country, the accident would never have happened. Some people like to moan about the justice system in the UK, but at least here you're entitled to a fair trial and legal representation. Some people make throwaway comments like 'Lock em up and throw away the key', or 'They should be strung up for that' when talking about petty crime, but in some countries, that is actually the case.
You'd have thought that he'd have to have told them that before he entered the country, though. A spy is unlikely to tell the subject what he's doing, surely? Hiding in plain sight is a well practiced method though, I guess.
Didn't do himself any favours with that twitter stuff.. Amazing when you read something and go deeper into it.. Cheers fella..
The West doesn't challenge any of this because we've got big oil and arms contracts with these countries. The lad's wife said that when she first contacted the Foreign office about her husband's plight, they saw it as a nuisance and distraction to their cosy relationship, rather than the fact that one of their citizens had been thrown in some hell hole prison in the desert. It's only now that it's got wide media attention that the Foreign office have to be seen to be taking a 'tough stance' It was the same with Nazanin Zaghari-Radcliffe in Iran, although a lot of that was down to the bumbling buffoonery of Boris Johnson making unguarded and untrue statements about why she was in Iran. But it often comes down to the families of these people to raise the profile of the plight of their loved ones for the Govt to be cajoled into action, when the impression is that they'd rather just sweep it under the carpet as an annoyance and distraction to their cosy relationships
Anyway, wasn't the real question here whether his missus is a Wid ye ? 25 years is a long time for her to go without a shag.
