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It’s a rancid sandpit run by a psycho with a taste for kidnapping. Welcome to Dubai!
Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum has only nine months left to realise his dream of making the United Arab Emirates “one of the best countries in the world by 2021”. He has a way to go. Right now it is 195th best in the world on my list of 196 countries and, frankly, it’s a toss-up…
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Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum: Met urged to launch inquiry into Dubai’s ruler
Scotland Yard is being urged to open a criminal investigation into the billionaire ruler of Dubai after a court ruled last week that he had kidnapped two of his daughters. Lawyers for Princess Latifa, who was abducted by men working for her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, are to write to Dame Cressida…
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Britain’s lucrative ties with the Gulf states have been tested by court shocks
The accusations against Sheikh Mohammed make uncomfortable reading for many, including the Queen and the Foreign Office. For many decades the British royals have acted as one of the UK’s most potent instruments of “soft power” in promoting close relations with the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates, other Gulf states and the Hashemite…
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Govt keeps mum after UK judge talks of ‘capture’ of Dubai princess by Indian commandos
Indian officials say London court ruling came in a ‘family dispute’ that does not involve international governments, defence ministry has ‘no information’. The government has chosen to keep mum over a United Kingdom court saying that Indian forces helped in the “capture” of fleeing Dubai princess Sheikha Latifa in 2018, with sources only saying it…
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Queen shuns Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed who kidnapped daughters
Royal call for diversity in Commonwealth message to ‘worldwide family’ of nations. The Queen is to distance herself from the billionaire ruler of Dubai after a court ruled that he had kidnapped two of his daughters, The Times has learnt. The Queen and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum have had a close relationship for decades…
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Mary Robinson’s visit to Dubai mentioned in British court judgment
Court found Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum ordered abduction of two of his daughters. The British court judgment that found the billionaire ruler of Dubai had ordered the abduction of two of his daughters, mentions the controversial visit former president Mary Robinson made to Dubai in December 2018. The judgment relates to Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum, the ruler…
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UAE: Free Dubai Ruler’s Captive Daughters
UK Court Concludes They Were Abducted, Forced Back to Dubai United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities should secure the freedom of two daughters of the ruler of Dubai, who a United Kingdom court found are being confined against their will, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 5, 2020, a UK family court published its ruling…
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Dubai ruler abducted and imprisoned his princess daughters, UK court rules
The billionaire ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, orchestrated the abductions, torture and imprisonment of two of his princess daughters, according to documents unsealed this week by a British judge. High Court Judge Andrew McFarlane’s ruling was part of a “fact-finding” judgment connected to a separate ongoing child custody case between Sheikh Mohammed…
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Horseracing body urged to review sheikh’s status
The regulatory body of British horseracing has been urged to review whether it allows the ruler of Dubai to race his horses in the UK after a senior judge found that he kidnapped two of his daughters and left one of his wives in fear for her life. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, a billionaire…
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Police to review kidnap of Dubai sheikh’s daughter
A police investigation into the kidnap of a teenage Arab princess is being reviewed for the second time after a judge found that the abduction was orchestrated by the powerful ruler of Dubai. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum was accused in court of ordering his agents to abduct his 19-year-old daughter, Princess Shamsa, in Cambridge…