Arrest of Matthew Hedges
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In May 2018, Matthew Hedges, a British doctoral student who was in the United Arab Emirates for a two-week trip, was arrested at Dubai International Airport on suspicion of spying on behalf of the Bri
Dubai International Airport, where Hedges was arrested.
MI6
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The Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence
Arrest of Matthew Hedges
…that the trial "was marred with such due process violations that there’s no way it could have been seen as a fair trial". Alex Younger, the head of MI6, said that he "couldn't understand how our Emirati partners came to the conclusions they came to." After the verdict, the University of Birmingham voted…
SIS Building, the headquarters of MI6 in London
54 Broadway, SIS headquarters from 1924 until 1964
A young Englishman, member of the Secret Intelligence Service, in Yatung, Tibet, photographed by Ernst Schäfer in 1939
Operation Gold: the Berlin tunnel in 1956