Presumed Located INDIA - Sheikha Latifa Al Maktoum, 33, Goa, 4 March 2018

[dotr]

The Mystery Of The Missing Princess Who Tried To Escape From Dubai

The documentary airs this Thursday on BBC.

"The documentary also explores the mystery of Latifa's older sister, Shamsa, who disappeared from the streets of Cambridge in 2000 after fleeing the family’s British mansion in Surrey. She was allegedly smuggled out of the UK, with the apparent abduction never fully being investigated by British police.
Jauhiainen and Jaubert were kidnapped alongside Latifa but managed to escape and share her story with the BBC. Jauhiainen said Latifa tried to contact the media but got little response, potentially because her account was so unbelievable they feared it was a scam. "She was sending emails to reporters and no one replied back to her. Nobody seemed to believe her, so she seemed desperate and sad like you know, who is there to help me now you know they can come after us any day," Jauhiainen recalled.
Hervé said Latifa had told him she would prefer to "be killed on the boat rather than going back to Dubai" and that he has no idea where she is to this day. "I have the gravest concern." Latifa hasn't been seen publicly since being captured, neither friends nor family have heard from her, and her Instagram account has been deactivated.
In a Change.org petition, the campaign group Detained in Dubai, which Latifa appointed to represent her before she vanished, is calling on the international community to intervene and for the UAE to respond to their questions."

 

[JerseyGirl]

Family of missing Emirati princess says she is 'safe' at home

A missing Emirati princess, who witnesses said was seized by commandos from a yacht after trying to flee Dubai, is “safe” at home, according to a statement released by her family.

The statement did not include any video or other message from Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum herself, who was 33 on Wednesday.

 

[dotr]

BBC Two - Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess

Today 21:00
BBC Two
"This programme will be available shortly after broadcast
Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess
In February 2018, the 32-year-old daughter of the ruler of Dubai boarded a boat and set sail for India with a plan to start a new life in America. But within days her boat was stormed by Indian commandos - she was captured and presumably returned to Dubai. No one has heard from her since. But Princess Latifa had made a video in case she was caught and entrusted it to a lawyer in America. Days later it was released on YouTube.

This programme pieces together Princess Latifa's life and reveals how she had been planning the escape for more than seven years. Far from living the charmed life of a princess, she was watched and restricted by her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The princess claims she had been imprisoned and tortured for a previous attempt to leave. The programme investigates the mystery of her older sister Shamsa, who disappeared from the streets of Cambridge in 2000 after fleeing the family's British mansion in Surrey. And it asks if the image of Dubai we are sold - of winter sunshine and luxury hotels, is actually hiding a brutal dictatorship of human rights abuses - where surveillance, imprisonment and torture are systematic and where tourists can easily be imprisoned for the slightest infringements of their ultra conservative laws."

 

[hippy hippy]

BBC Two - Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess

Today 21:00
BBC Two
"This programme will be available shortly after broadcast
Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess
In February 2018, the 32-year-old daughter of the ruler of Dubai boarded a boat and set sail for India with a plan to start a new life in America. But within days her boat was stormed by Indian commandos - she was captured and presumably returned to Dubai. No one has heard from her since. But Princess Latifa had made a video in case she was caught and entrusted it to a lawyer in America. Days later it was released on YouTube.

This programme pieces together Princess Latifa's life and reveals how she had been planning the escape for more than seven years. Far from living the charmed life of a princess, she was watched and restricted by her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The princess claims she had been imprisoned and tortured for a previous attempt to leave. The programme investigates the mystery of her older sister Shamsa, who disappeared from the streets of Cambridge in 2000 after fleeing the family's British mansion in Surrey. And it asks if the image of Dubai we are sold - of winter sunshine and luxury hotels, is actually hiding a brutal dictatorship of human rights abuses - where surveillance, imprisonment and torture are systematic and where tourists can easily be imprisoned for the slightest infringements of their ultra conservative laws."

 

[hippy hippy]

Watching this now....very good, I recommend. My son lives in Dubai. Scarey

 

[Darling136]

‘Missing’ UAE princess living with family

Presume located

 

[dotr]

‘Missing’ UAE princess living with family

Presume located

Thanks, good to know!
“Photographs taken during the afternoon they spent together have been shared, with their consent.

During her visit to Dubai, Mary Robinson was reassured that HH Sheikha Latifa is receiving the necessary care and support she requires.”

It said: “The communique responds to and rebuts false allegations and provided evidence that Her Highness Sheikha Latifa was at home and living with her family in Dubai.”

The ministry said the UAE mission in Geneva shared the statement with the Office of Special Procedures at the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights."

 

[scriabina]

This hasn't been resolved at all in my opinion. All of this has been "resolved" according to UAE officials, those who were responsible for abusing Latifa and holding her captive! Why in the world should we trust them? On the contrary, this should raise more questions! No one has explained the video she released, the abuse she has described, or the illegal raid of Latifa's boat on international waters. What about the two witnesses on the boat who described their violent encounter including Latifa's terror as she was snatched away, not to be seen again for 9 months? Why did it take 9 months to see any images of her? Why hasn't she been allowed to speak for herself since her capture? What happened during those last 9 months?

These issues are mentioned in the article below which quotes a human rights group that refute Mary Robinson's claims of Latifa's safety, stating "Mrs Robinson appears to have spent a couple of hours with Sheikha Latifa, and despite having no formal medical or psychiatric training, has somehow diagnosed her condition and concluded that she is receiving appropriate treatment. It is unclear on what basis Mrs Robinson considers herself qualified to do so."

Row over Dubai 'missing' princess meeting

Sheikha Latifa does not look happy or peaceful at all in those very few photos the UAE has chosen to release. I find the photos very disturbing and have my own ideas of what may have happened to her in the last 9 months.

 

[chimpface]

This hasn't been resolved at all in my opinion. All of this has been "resolved" according to UAE officials, those who were responsible for abusing Latifa and holding her captive! Why in the world should we trust them? On the contrary, this should raise more questions! No one has explained the video she released, the abuse she has described, or the illegal raid of Latifa's boat on international waters. What about the two witnesses on the boat who described their violent encounter including Latifa's terror as she was snatched away, not to be seen again for 9 months? Why did it take 9 months to see any images of her? Why hasn't she been allowed to speak for herself since her capture? What happened during those last 9 months?

These issues are mentioned in the article below which quotes a human rights group that refute Mary Robinson's claims of Latifa's safety, stating "Mrs Robinson appears to have spent a couple of hours with Sheikha Latifa, and despite having no formal medical or psychiatric training, has somehow diagnosed her condition and concluded that she is receiving appropriate treatment. It is unclear on what basis Mrs Robinson considers herself qualified to do so."

Row over Dubai 'missing' princess meeting

Sheikha Latifa does not look happy or peaceful at all in those very few photos the UAE has chosen to release. I find the photos very disturbing and have my own ideas of what may have happened to her in the last 9 months.

I agree wholeheartedly with this.

 

[gowestyoungman]

This is terrible. The Indian and Dubai government should be sanctioned. Women are not property!

 

[PhoebeTries]

Mrs Robinson, who recently met Sheikha Latifa, daughter of Dubai's ruler, said she was a "troubled young woman".

Vile. Absolutely vile.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Opinion | Mrs. Robinson and the Missing Princess

 

[dotr]

In the NYTimes.
Feb 10 2018
A Princess Vanishes. A Video Offers Alarming Clues.

 

[dotr]

Dubai ruler's wife 'in hiding in UK'
July 2 2019 rbbm.
"Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, a wife of the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, is in hiding in London and said to be in fear for her life after fleeing her husband."
"Sources close to her have said that Princess Haya had recently discovered disturbing facts behind the mysterious return to Dubai last year of Sheikha Latifa, one of the ruler's daughters. She fled the UAE by sea with the help of a Frenchman but was intercepted by armed men off the coast of India and returned to Dubai.

Princess Haya then, along with the former Irish president Mary Robinson, defended Dubai's reputation over the incident.

The Dubai authorities said the runaway Sheikha Latifa had been "vulnerable to exploitation" and was "now safe in Dubai". But human rights advocates said she was forcibly abducted against her will.

Since then, it is alleged, Princess Haya has learnt new facts about the case and consequently came under increasing hostility and pressure from members of her husband's extended family until she no longer felt safe there."

 

[dotr]

Dubai ruler and his wife begin legal battle in London
"Emirati authorities dismissed the allegations over Princess Latifa’s treatment and abduction at the time as fiction, saying that she was “vulnerable to exploitation” and had been kidnapped.

Former Irish president Mary Robinson was drawn into the controversy when she went to Dubai at the request of Princess Haya. Ms Robinson was photographed with Princess Latifa, who she described as a “troubled” and “vulnerable” young woman who was getting medical attention from her family."

Photo taken on December 15th, 2018, showing Princess Latifa and Mary Robinson in Dubai, UAE. Photograph: United Arab Emirates ministry of foreign affairs and international co-operation via AP

"Princess Haya is close to the British royal family and owns an £85 million (about €95 million) house near Kensington Palace. Unusually, she has not been seen at Ascot this summer despite being a keen equestrian and regular racegoer. She is believed to be in the UK.

She married the billionaire Sheikh Mohammed in 2004 and is his sixth wife."

 

[chimpface]

She looks absolutely blottoed in that photo.

 

[dotr]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/runaway-pri...off-in-messy-custody-case-in-london-1.5231883
Aug 01, 2019
"In her only public remarks on Latifa, Haya told Irish radio last January that Latifa was vulnerable — not because of her family, but because of outsiders who were looking to take advantage of her.

In this 2004 handout from the Royal Court of Jordan, Princess Haya, Sheik Mohamed and Jordan's King Abdullah sit at al-Baraka palace in Amman. (Royal Palace via Gettty Images)
"We've done our utmost to help and protect and support her through this period and we continue to do so," Haya said. "It's unimaginable that this thing has gone so far from the truth."
"Pressed to explain, Haya would not. She called Latifa's situation a "deeply private family matter," but said that "if I thought for a second that any single shred of this was true ... I wouldn't be here and I wouldn't stand for it."

Haya's own sudden departure from Dubai five months later has raised fresh questions about what she knows about Princess Latifa.

Whether Haya herself left U.A.E. because of Latifa or not, "it's certainly going to be referenced in the court proceedings," said Stirling from Detained in Dubai.

Another wayward princess
There is another princess in the sheik's family who ran away. Back in 2000, Princess Shamsa left her father's estate in Surrey, U.K. She was reportedly apprehended by the sheik's staff in Cambridge, returned to U.A.E. and has not been seen since.

Latifa alleged in her video that her sister Shamsa has been drugged, ill-treated and forcibly detained in Dubai.

Human Rights Watch's Begum stressed that her organization cannot verify any of these allegations, because the women involved "haven't been allowed to leave the country, to express what they really wish to do."

 

[dotr]

Lengthy article with pics.
“You’re Essentially a Prisoner”: Why Do Dubai's Princesses Keep Trying to Escape?
First Princess Latifa tried to flee by boat and almost made it to India—before being sent back. Then Princess Haya, Sheikh Mohammed’s “public wife,” refused to return from England. Now the sheikh is battling her in court over their children.

By
Vanessa Grigoriadis
November 11, 2019

 

[dotr]

March 6 2020 Lengthy article.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jauhiainen-latifah-dubai-escape-1.5488335
Tiina Jauhiainen was found credible by judge ruling on messy saga of Emirati ruler's kids, ex-wife
Thomson Reuters
''In a judgment published on Thursday, a British judge ruled that the Emirati ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum had abducted Latifa — just as he had her elder sister Shamsa from England almost two decades earlier — and subjected her to inhumane treatment.''

''Jauhiainen gave a witness statement as part of the recent British case and briefly appeared in court in London to confirm it was true.

"In making an overall assessment of the evidence relating to Latifa, I regard the evidence of Tiina Jauhiainen as being of singular importance," the judge, Andrew McFarlane, said in his ruling, which described the Finnish national as a "wholly impressive individual."

 

[peterjfry]

Just wanted to share a publicly viewable copy of the BBC documentary, Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess for anyone who may still be interested.

Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess - video dailymotion

Description:

In February 2018, the 32-year-old daughter of the ruler of Dubai boarded a boat and set sail for India with a plan to start a new life in America. But within days her boat was stormed by Indian commandos - she was captured and presumably returned to Dubai. No one has heard from her since. But Princess Latifa had made a video in case she was caught and entrusted it to a lawyer in America. Days later it was released on YouTube.

This program pieces together Princess Latifa's life and reveals how she had been planning the escape for more than seven years. Far from living the charmed life of a princess, she was watched and restricted by her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The princess claims she had been imprisoned and tortured for a previous attempt to leave. The program investigates the mystery of her older sister Shamsa, who disappeared from the streets of Cambridge in 2000 after fleeing the family's British mansion in Surrey. And it asks if the image of Dubai we are sold - of winter sunshine and luxury hotels, is actually hiding a brutal dictatorship of human rights abuses - where surveillance, imprisonment and torture are systematic and where tourists can easily be imprisoned for the slightest infringements of their ultra conservative laws.