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Detained: Ian Heywood cannot leave Qatar until prosecutors decide whether or not to charge him A former British Airways executive was kept in solitary confinement for 25 days after being arrested in the Middle East for alleged industrial espionage. Ian Heywood, 47, was heading off for a weekend break in Bahrain with a group of colleagues when he was seized by police as he was about to board a flight at Doha airport in the Gulf state of Qatar. He was taken to an unknown location – thought to have been a police station – where he was detained in a cell for nearly a month. Last night the Foreign Office in London admitted that Qatari officials had verbally confirmed his arrest to them after eight days – but they did not tell his distraught family of his whereabouts for another fortnight until they got ‘official confirmation’. Now... [read full story]
