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Dubai princess Sheikha Latifa records video from villa where she says she is being held hostage
Emirati princess Sheikha Latifa, one of the daughters of Dubai’s ruler, says she is being held against her will in a barricaded villa.
Key points:
- Sheikha Latifa said in the video there were police officers stationed outside and inside the villa
- The Free Latifa campaign said it managed to smuggle a phone to Latifa
- Reuters and the ABC could not independently verify when or where the video was recorded
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum drew international attention in 2018 when a human rights group released a video she made in which she described an attempt to escape Dubai.
Last March, a London High Court judge said he accepted as proved a series of allegations made by Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bint Rashid Al Maktoum’s former wife,…
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