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<ul class="summary-list"><li>After two years of near silence, new videos of <keyword id="7105858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Princess-Latifa">Princess Latifa</keyword> of <keyword id="6354539" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dubai">Dubai</keyword> have emerged.</li><li>The princess claims she's being kept against her will in a "villa prison" in Dubai.</li><li>Latifa tried to escape in 2018, but was captured by Indian commandos and returned to Dubai.</li></ul><p>Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, the daughter of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, says she's being held "hostage" by her family and fears for her life.</p><p>In a newly-released series of videos recorded in secret over <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56075528">seven months</a> and shared with BBC Panorama, the princess said that her family has held her against her will in a "villa prison" under constant police surveillance.  </p><p>Latifa first tried to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">escape Dubai</a> in 2018. She and her friend Tiina Jauhiainen, a Finnish capoeria instructor, fled over the <keyword id="6354870" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="United-Arab-Emirates">United Arab Emirates</keyword> border into Oman, and attempted to sail a small inflatable boat into international waters.</p><p>But her plan was thwarted when a group of Indian commandos overtook the vessel and held her at gunpoint. She was sent back to Dubai and held in solitary confinement.</p><p>Latifa had previously tried to leave Dubai in 2002, when she was 18, in an attempt to help her missing sister <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/05/kidnapping-case-what-happened-to-sheikh-mohammeds-daughters">Shamsa</a>. Shamsa had been living in London but was kidnapped off the street in 2000, by men who were believed to be working for her father.  </p><p>Latifa was caught, though, and sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison.</p><p>In a video made before her attempted escape in 2018, Latifa said her father was "the most evil person I've ever met in my life. He's pure evil. There is nothing good in him." </p>  Your Website Title                           <p>Now, she says, she's guarded by seven police and not permitted to go beyond the walls of the villa. </p><p>"Every day, I'm worried about my safety in my life. I don't really know if I'm going to survive this situation," Latifa said, according to a transcript provided by the British human rights lawyer David Haigh, who leads the <a href="https://freelatifa.com/">campaign to free her</a>.</p><p>Haigh told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/world/middleeast/sheikha-latifa-video-dubai.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur=cur">The New York Times</a> the videos came to him via Jauhiainen, who said the slow trickle of videos from the princess had dried up toward the end of 2020, prompting her to want to release them.</p><p>A year after Latifa's failed escape, one of Sheikh Mohammed's wives, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/princess-haya-hires-baroness-shackelton-divorce-emir-dubai-2019-7">Princess Haya of Jordan</a>, fled to London and began a custody battle with the sheikh over the couple's two children. </p><p>In addition to serving as the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed is also the vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.</p><p>He is one of the richest men in the world and occasionally socializes with the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56075528">British royal family</a>, but has received low marks for the <a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates">country's human rights record</a>. </p><p>Messages to the government of Dubai and to David Haigh were not immediately returned. </p>

A Dubai princess says she's being held hostage by her family following an attempted escape

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Princess Haya, the wife of Dubai Emir Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum, has fled, reportedly stricken by new chilling details about the fate of a runaway princess captured last year.&#xa0;</li><li>The princess is hiding out at her Kensington Palace Gardens townhouse in London, and is beginning divorce proceedings, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48843168">the BBC reported.&#xa0;</a></li><li>In February 2018, Princess Latifa, one of al-Maktoum's 23 daughters fled to India by yacht, but was caught by Emirati commandos are returned. She has not been heard from since.&#xa0;</li><li><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48843168">According to the BBC,</a> Princess Haya learnt "disturbing facts" about Princess Latifa's capture, and decided to flee to London, bringing her two children with her.&#xa0;</li><li><a href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul><p>The wife of Dubai Emir Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum has fled the country and is hiding in London, reportedly driven away by chilling details about the <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">capture of a princess who tried to flee in 2018</a>.</p><p>Princess Haya bint al-Hussein fled to her $107 million town house in Kensington Palace Gardens in mid-June. She is now bringing a case for divorce against her husband, the vice president of the United Arab Emirates, sources close to the princess <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48843168">told the BBC.</a>&#xa0;</p><p>She has brought her son Zayed, aged 7, and daughter Al Jalila, aged 11, to London with her, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ruler-of-dubai-condemns-his-runaway-wife-princess-haya-on-instagramin-a-poem">the Daily Beast reported.</a></p><p>That the princess had escaped the royal household was first alleged by senior Jordanian journalist Osama Fawzi <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jqVcBbi61A">on his YouTube channel</a> on June 22.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>A spokesman for the UAE government told Business Insider: "The UAE government does not intend to comment on allegations about individuals' private lives."</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sheikh-mohammed-bin-rashid-al-maktoum-helps-cornish-village-buy-church-2017-6?r=US&amp;IR=T">This was the email that convinced the billionaire Emir of Dubai to rescue a community centre in a rural British village</a></em></p><p>According to the BBC, Princess Haya, the daughter of King Hussein of Jordan, fled after learning details about the disappearance of one of her husband's 23 daughters last year.</p><p>Princess Latifa reportedly spent seven years planning her escape from Dubai, <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">enlisting the help of a former French spy, her Finnish martial arts teacher, and an escape boat flying a US flag</a>&#xa0;to deter pursuers.</p><p>The princess, aged 32 at the time, got within touching distance of Goa, 1,200 miles away on India's west coast, but was <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bshk6s">chased down by Emirati commandos and returned to Dubai in March 2018</a>.</p><p>She has not been heard from since, with activists fearing she has been jailed indefinitely.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dubai-gender-balance-award-2018-winners-are-all-men-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Dubai held a 'gender balance' awards, and every single winner is a man</a></em></p><p>In December 2018, the Emirati embassy in London <a href="https://twitter.com/UAEEmbassyUK/status/1070702035971043328">assured well wishers in a statement</a> that Princess Latifa was alive, and "safe in Dubai."</p><p>Before she fled Princess Latifa<span> made a video detailing alleged abuse and trauma at the hands of her 69-year-old father. She entrusted the tape to her lawyer, </span><span>who was instructed</span> to release it if her escape attempt went wrong,</p><p>Radha Stirling, the CEO of Detained in Dubai, an advocacy group campaigning for Princess Latifa's cause, <a href="http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/stirling-och-partners/pressreleases/radha-stirling-statement-on-asylum-bid-of-princess-haya-2892873">said in a statement on Monday</a>:</p><p>"Princess Haya has every reason to fear the consequences if she were to be sent back to Dubai. She surely knows, as Latifa knew, that asylum provides her the only safe route out of the royal palace."</p><p>"If she was abused, she could not go to the police; if she wanted a divorce, she could not go to the courts."</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sheikh-mohammed-bin-rashid-al-maktoum-orders-shake-up-of-city-management-2016-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">Dubai's ruler sacked 9 senior officials because they weren't at work at 7:30 in the morning</a></em></p><p>Sheik al-Maktoum is well known as an amateur poet, and released a mysterious poem this week which alluded to his wife's escape.</p><p>A line <a href="https://sheikhmohammed.ae/en-us/Poetry">in "Affection in Your Eyes" reads</a>: "We have an ailment that no medicine can cure, No experts in herbs can remedy this."</p><p>Another of the Sheik 's daughters, Sheikha Shamsa, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/15/jamiewilson.stuartmillar">fled the family's English country estate in a Range Rover in 2000</a> when she was 18.</p><p>She was caught, and sent to Dubai.</p><div></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-border-facilities-concentration-camps-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cages-2019-6">Why the US border facilities are 'concentration camps,' according to historians</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

The wife of the Emir of Dubai has run away to London, reportedly after learning disturbing details about a failed escape attempt by another princess

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Getty</span></p><p class="caption">Queen Elizabeth II (R) and Princess Haya in Windsor, England.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Princess Haya has hired a lawyer to British royalty to represent her in her divorce from husband the Emir and Sheik of Dubai, a source tells Business Insider.</li><li>Princess Haya fled to London in June, reportedly after learning chilling details about the <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">failed escape of Princess Latifa</a>, one of Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum's 23 children.</li><li>She is now divorcing the Sheik, and has hired Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia, of law firm Payne Hicks Beach, to advocate for her. </li><li>Shackleton represented Prince Charles during his divorce from Princess Diana Spencer in 1996, and is now a solicitor to Princes William and Harry.</li><li><strong>Lady Helen Ward, from the law firm Stewart's, will represent Sheik Mohammed, legal sources told Business Insider.</strong></li><li><a href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit INSIDER'S homepage for more stories. </a></li></ul><p>Princess Haya of Jordan has enlisted the expertise of Baroness Shackleton, a lawyer frequently used by the British royal family, to litigate divorce proceedings against her husband, the Emir of Dubai, a colleague for the lawyer told Business Insider.</p><p>Princess Haya fled to London this month. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48843168">According to the BBC</a>, she left after learning <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/princess-haya-dubai-flees-husband-sheik-al-maktoum-2019-7?r=US&amp;IR=T">worrying details</a> of the <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">2018 disappearance of  Princess Latifa</a>, one of husband Emir Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum's 23 children.</p><p>She is now divorcing him at the High Court in London. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48843168">The BBC, citing sources close to Haya</a>, said she is "afraid for her life."</p><p>David Haigh, a lawyer for Latifa, told Business Insider that Haya has enlisted Shackleton to handle the case. She is currently a solicitor to Princes Harry and William, and has substantial experience of high-stakes divorce cases.</p><p>The Times of London <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/royal-lawyer-baroness-shackleton-advising-on-dubai-split-5s3zcb0k7">also reported Shackleton's involvement</a>, citing unnamed "legal sources."</p><p>Former clients include Prince Charles, in his 1996 divorce of Princess Diana, and Paul McCartney in his 2008 divorce of Heather Mills.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Jordanian Princess Haya bint al-Hussein (L) and husband Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum at Royal Ascot, England.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Shackleton has yet to respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.</p><p>A source close to Sheik Mohammed told Business Insider that divorce lawyer Lady Helen Ward, of the firm Stewart's, is to represent the Sheik during legal proceedings.</p><p>The case will be heard by Justice Moor at the High Court, which sits at London's Royal Courts of Justice. Hearings are scheduled for July 30 and July 31.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>PHB</span></p><p class="caption">Baroness Shackleton.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>According to a Wednesday report by <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7209203/Dubai-rulers-wife-Princess-Haya-planned-escape-husband-LIED-imprisoning-elder-daughter.html">MailOnline</a>, citing sources close to Haya, the prompt for her departure from Dubai was finding out that Latifa tried to run away.</p><p>The outlet said that Sheik Mohammed had told Haya that Latifa was kidnapped as part of an extortion attempt, rather than fleeing of her own free will.</p><p>A BBC documentary last year detailed <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">how Latifa spent seven years</a> planning the escape.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dubai-gender-balance-award-2018-winners-are-all-men-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T"><span> </span>Dubai held a 'gender balance' awards, and every single winner is a man</a></em></p><p>The documentary details how Emirati commandos caught up with Princess Haya just off the coast of Goa, India, in April, a fortnight after she fled.</p><p>She was returned to Dubai, and has not been heard from in public since. </p><p><span>In December, the Emirati Embassy in London </span><a href="https://twitter.com/UAEEmbassyUK/status/1070702035971043328">said in a statement</a><span> that she was alive and "safe in Dubai."</span></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation via AP</span></p><p class="caption">In this Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018 photo, released on Monday, Dec. 24, 2018, by the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, a daughter of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, left, meets Mary Robinson, a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Ireland, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Before her escape Princess Latifa <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN7OEFyNUkQ">made a video to be released if her escape failed</a>. In it Latifa said she was fleeing physical and psychological abuse at the hands of her father. </p><p>Haigh, the lawyer for Latifa, told Business Insider that Haya's lawsuit will draw attention back onto the human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE.)</p><p>"It's good news for Latifa, as it's thrown what happened to her into a court which isn't corrupt," he said. "That's good news for anyone who has been abused in the UAE."</p><p>Shackleton represented Prince Charles during his split from Princess Diana Spencer in 1996, and represented Prince Andrew, Duke of York, during his divorce with Sarah, Duchess of York, the same year.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed </span></p><p class="caption">United Arab Emirates' Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum attends the closing session of the GCC summit, in Sakhir, south of Manama, December 25, 2012.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>She also represented Beatles star Paul McCartney as he divorced Heather Mills in 2008. </p><p>Sheikh Mohammed, also an amateur poet, released a mysterious verse this week that appears to allude to Princess Haya's escape to London.</p><p><span style="color: #222222;">A line</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://sheikhmohammed.ae/en-us/Poetry">in "Affection in Your Eyes" reads</a><span style="color: #222222;">: "We have an ailment that no medicine can cure / No experts in herbs can remedy this."</span></p><p>Princess Haya is also suing for custody of the children she shares with Sheik Mohammed: Zayed, 7, and daughter Al Jalila, 11, <a href="https://time.com/5619647/princess-haya-dubai-sheikh-mohammed-al-maktoum-protection-london/">Time magazine reported.</a></p><p>Another of his daughters, Sheikha Shamsa,<span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/15/jamiewilson.stuartmillar">fled the family's English country estate in a Range Rover in 2000</a><span> </span>when she was 18, her friends told The Guardian. She was caught and sent to Dubai. </p><p>Radha Stirling, the CEO of Detained in Dubai, an advocacy group campaigning for Latifa,<span> </span><a href="http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/stirling-och-partners/pressreleases/radha-stirling-statement-on-asylum-bid-of-princess-haya-2892873">said in a statement on Monday</a>: "Princess Haya has every reason to fear the consequences if she were to be sent back to Dubai. She surely knows, as Latifa knew, that asylum provides her the only safe route out of the royal palace."</p><p>Stirling added: "If she was abused, she could not go to the police; if she wanted a divorce, she could not go to the courts."</p><p>The Emirati embassy in London told Business Insider: "This is a private family matter and not one which the UAE government would involve itself in or comment on."</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-border-facilities-concentration-camps-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cages-2019-6">Why the US border facilities are 'concentration camps,' according to historians</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

Princess Haya has hired Prince William and Harry's lawyer to fight her divorce from the Emir of Dubai, and she's an expert in royal separations

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Chrysler</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Based on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuhtYKgfA3Y" target="_blank">images streaming out of Dubai,</a> the cast and crew of "Fast and Furious 7" seems to have truly enjoyed their time filming in the bustling Arab emirate.</p>
<p>To show their appreciation, star Vin Diesel gifted Dubai princess Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum with one of the black Dodge Challengers that have become synonymous with his "Dominic Toretto" character, <a href="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/hollywood-star-gifts-muscle-car-dubai-princess-548753.html">according to Arabian Business</a>. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The princess posted a photo of the car on Instagram. Diesel also included a signed CD, a postcard, and a handwritten note that read, "To my extended family in Dubai, thank you for the love...your friend always."</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The princess expressed her gratitude for the gift by posting, "Thank you @vindiesel for this wonderful gift, it was a great pleasure meeting you and your family."</span></p>
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<p><span>Based on the photo posted, the seemingly stock Challenger features red interior and exterior accents over a black base. The exact technical specifications of the gifted car have not been revealed, however, stock Challengers come available with a 5.7 litre Hemi V-8 pushing out 375 low-revving horsepower; making it the perfect stop light drag racer. </span></p>
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