The british academic sentenced to life in UAE for 25 years

Sounds like a nightmare, poor chap. What did the government actually do, despite assurances from UAE that he wouldn't be found guilty.

What sort of idiot decides to investigate a Gulf State’s internal politics    ‘in country’?

Why should our Government waste a penny on this cretin?

i was listening the to bbc news last night and what he was up to , and i did rather think to myself, if the UAE didn't think he was guilty before, his colleagues really done for him now. i'd lock him up.

 

As I said on the Abbs thread, he was an idiot. Apparently he can't even read or speak Arabic. The authorities probably thought let's see what he's got and what his line of questioning is. If it crosses the line we'll just arrest him.