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Matthew Hedges

Matthew Hedges is a doctoral research candidate in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. In 2018 he was imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates while carrying out research.

<p>It is bad enough that the UAE is attempting to leverage Cop28 to improve its own reputation, let alone trying to cleanse that of Bashar al-Assad</p>
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Why should Britain share a stage with ‘war criminal’ Assad at Cop28?

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