{"id":68571,"date":"2018-11-24T14:39:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/24\/matthew-hedges-jailing-two-more-uk-universities-cut-ties-with-uae\/"},"modified":"2018-11-24T14:39:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T13:39:20","slug":"matthew-hedges-jailing-two-more-uk-universities-cut-ties-with-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=68571","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Hedges jailing: two more UK universities cut ties with UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Durham University and University of Exeter join backlash against Gulf state over academic\u2019s imprisonment The academic backlash against the life imprisonment of Matthew Hedges is growing, with two more UK universities cutting ties with the United Arab Emirates until the Durham PhD student accused of spying is released.Durham University has suspended all field research in the UAE while lecturers at the University of Exeter, where Hedges did his master\u2019s degree, have voted in favour of an academic boycott and called on the vice-chancellor to suspend all business partnerships with the Gulf state. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2018\/nov\/24\/matthew-hedges-jailing-two-more-uk-universities-cut-ties-with-uae\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Hedges jailing: two more UK universities cut ties with UAE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durham University and University of Exeter join backlash against Gulf state over academic\u2019s imprisonment The academic backlash against the life imprisonment of Matthew Hedges is growing, with two more UK universities cutting ties with the United Arab Emirates until the Durham PhD student accused of spying is released.Durham University has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}