No access to medical help, no trial, no charge, nothing,” the 35-year-old says at another point in the footage. Her friends say that Latifa has stopped sending secret video messages of late and that the United Nations must investigate, according to BBC Panorama. Latifa is the daughter of Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who serves as both the ruler of the Dubai emirate and the UAE’s prime minister. “They’re not going to take me back alive,” Latifa said in the 2018 video. The court also found that he had ordered the abduction in 2000 of another UAE princess from Britain.

Source: Washington Post February 16, 2021 17:36 UTC