“It has been manic,” a visibly anxious Hedges, 31, told the Guardian. He spent almost six months in solitary confinement in a window-less state security office, being regularly threatened with torture and interrogated for up to 15 hours a day. My family lived there for over 15 years and I’d also worked out there more than once, for years at a time.”Hedges said he feels no resentment towards the Emirati friend that reported him to state security. “It would be easy to feel anger towards him but I have no clue under what circumstance he has got in touch with the state security. Hedges, who was the first western academic to be detained in this way in the UAE, says: “I put it down to paranoia.

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2018 06:56 UTC