Jeremy Hunt
The United Arab Emirates has released Durham PhD student Matthew Hedges after an international outcry and intense lobbying from the British government. He was detained on May 5 in Dubai, when he was on a two week research trip to the country. He was charged with spying and was sentenced to life in prison on November 21. His wife Daniela Tejada said his release was “the best possible news” and she’d been “brought back to life”.
If the UK is only going to speak out about human rights when its own nationals like Matthew Hedges are affected, then it will be betraying thousands of brave human rights defenders around the globe
'It will be a best present for the country if Nazanin is home by Christmas.'
“There is, between us, something which has the remainings of love.”
Theresa May gets EU rubber stamp for her Brexit deal - now what.
EU leaders rubber stamp agreement - now for the hard part.
Richard Ratcliffe says Matthew Hedges is "clearly innocent" and Foreign Office should be vocal in such "spurious political cases".
The five things you need to know about politics today
"No child should have to go this long without their mother" the Foreign Secretary said after the meeting.
Foreign Secretary says jailed British mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released.
About Jeremy Hunt
According to his website: "In December 2005 he was appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People, where he successfully campaigned for the BBC to increase the amount of subtitling on its programmes. He also campaigned strongly for simplification of the benefits system for disabled people and individual social care budgets. In July 2007 he was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport where he has campaigned for more philanthropy for the arts, local TV, superfast broadband, a schools Olympics and a strengthened domestic tourism industry. "In May 2010 Jeremy was appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport in the new Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition. In September 2012 he was appointed Secretary of State for Health in the Prime Minister's Cabinet reshuffle. "Jeremy divides his time between Westminster and his constituency home in Farnham. He married his wife Lucia in July 2009 and they have a son and a daughter."