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Dubai Ruler’s Daughter Says She’s Being Held “Hostage”


Sheikha Latifa mentioned her state of affairs is “getting extra determined day-after-day”. (File Photograph)

London:

The daughter of Dubai’s ruler says she is being held captive and fears for her life after a foiled try and flee, based on footage broadcast on Tuesday.

Sheikha Latifa has not been seen in public since she tried to flee from the Emirate by sea in March 2018.

The BBC aired clips it mentioned have been filmed roughly a 12 months after she was captured and returned to Dubai exhibiting her crouched in a nook of what she says is a rest room.

“I am a hostage and this villa has been transformed right into a jail,” she says in a single cellphone video.

“There’s 5 policemen exterior and two policewomen inside the home. On daily basis I’m nervous about my security and my life.”

In one other video, Latifa says her state of affairs is “getting extra determined day-after-day”.

“I do not need to be a hostage on this jail villa. I simply need to be free,” she says.

The BBC launched the video excerpts forward of its investigative information programme “Panorama”.

Sky News reported that it had additionally acquired the movies however had been unable to contact Latifa for the final 9 months.

The broadcasters reported that the movies have now been handed to the United Nations by her mates.

The Dubai authorities didn’t reply to a request for remark.

Latifa’s father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, is vp and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a constituent.

He shares a ardour for breeding racing horses with Queen Elizabeth II and so they have been photographed collectively.

‘Jailed’ in Dubai

The undated movies have been broadcast as Latifa’s mates voiced concern that secret messages from her have stopped coming, the BBC mentioned.

The movies got here from Latifa’s Finnish good friend, Tiina Jauhiainen, who accompanied her throughout her escape try.

The BBC mentioned it had independently verified the main points of the place Latifa was held.

In 2018, Latifa tried to flee the UAE on a ship that was then intercepted by commandos off the coast of India, based on her companions and the UK-based group Detained in Dubai.

“I used to be holding onto the yacht… They have been pulling me off, I used to be combating exhausting as I may,” she recollects.

“I used to be up in opposition to lots of people with weapons.”

Within the movies, Latifa says that males from the Emirates sat on her, tried to tie her up and injected her with a sedative.

A Dubai authorities supply later mentioned that she had been “introduced again” and the UAE launched pictures of Latifa, saying she was receiving “the mandatory care and assist”.

Latifa mentioned she was held for roughly three months within the Al-Awir central jail in Dubai, till Might 2018, earlier than being moved to the villa.

In 2019, Sheikh Mohammed’s ex-wife, Haya Bint Al Hussein, fled to London, the place she utilized for a pressured marriage safety order regarding their school-age youngsters.

The Dubai emir subjected Haya to intimidation, a British Excessive Courtroom decide dominated final 12 months, granting her software for the kids to be made wards of court docket permitting them to dwell in London along with her.

Choose Andrew McFarlane additionally dominated that each Latifa and her sister Sheikha Shamsa, the emir’s daughters from a earlier marriage, had been forcibly returned to Dubai.

He upheld Latifa’s account that she was detained at sea by Indian particular forces and returned to Dubai.

(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)

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