Saturday 1 December 2018

Foreign Office 'softly-softly' tactics in spotlight after Hedges ordeal

Families say FCO’s ‘institutional bias’ for keeping cases private could be a smokescreen for diplomats to do little

On Monday night as Matthew Hedges waited at Dubai airport for a flight back to London ending his six-month ordeal in the United Arab Emirates, his wife, Daniela Tejada, was in an Italian restaurant close to the BBC headquarters, sharing her nervous expectation for a couple of hours with the spouses of other British detainees.

Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, still detained in Tehran, was there, as was Yemi Tsege, the wife of Andy Tsege, released from an Ethiopian jail in May after four years on death row in political detention. Family members of other detainees and former detainees who have chosen to keep their cases private were also present.

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