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Interview: ‘They told me they could do anything they wanted with me’ — Princess Latifa’s friend speaks out about trying to escape Dubai with the princess and the Irish connection
The last time Tiina Jauhiainen saw her close friend Princess Latifa of Dubai, she was being dragged away kicking and screaming by armed commandos from a boat off the Indian coast. Latifa and Tiina had mounted a daring escape from the gulf state in February 2018 after the princess had her freedom heavily restricted by…
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Robinson’s evidence ‘critical in the fight to free Latifa’
A lawyer and friend of missing Princess Latifa of Dubai says former president Mary Robinson has vowed to “help in the campaign to free her” and has a “critical and key” role to play. The captive daughter of Dubai’s ruler, who is reportedly being held hostage by her father, was previously described by Mrs Robinson…
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Elaine Byrne: Robinson should have known better on the plight of Princess Latifa
“As a woman, I want women who have felt themselves outside history to be written back into history.” So said Mary Robinson in her famous “Mná na hÉireann” speech in 1990, when she became Ireland’s first female president. That historic speech is very much at odds with Robinson’s extraordinary lack of curiosity around the wellbeing…
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I released Princess Latifa’s ‘prison’ video. I pray it doesn’t backfire
Tiina Jauhiainen was on holiday at her parents’ house in northern Finland in the spring of 2019 when her phone lit up with a message from a stranger. The person said they had a message from Princess Latifa Al Maktoum of Dubai, Jauhiainen’s best friend. It was a heart-stopping moment. A year earlier, Jauhiainen, an…
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How mobile networks were used to locate fleeing Princess Latifa
Accomplices in row over who’s phone gave away location of secret escape yacht carrying Princess Latifa. The yacht aboard which fleeing Dubai royal Princess Latifa hoped to reach India – and eventually a life of freedom beyond the clutches of her domineering father – was well-equipped for open water sailing. A 29-metre ketch motor sailer…
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Prinzessin Unzerstörbar: Die Tochter des Emirs von Dubai kämpft seit Jahren für ihre Freiheit
Latifa Al Maktum, Scheicha aus Dubai, soll seit drei Jahren die Geisel ihres Vaters sein. Nun ermitteln sogar die Vereinten Nationen. Es gibt ein Video von Latifa Al Maktum, in dem sie fliegt. Kopfüber rast die Scheicha auf die Erde zu, unter ihr die künstlichen Palmeninseln Dubais. Die Sonne strahlt durch den Dunst, der Wind…
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Princess Indestructible: The daughter of the Emir of Dubai has been fighting for her freedom for years
Latifa Al Maktoum, Sheikha from Dubai, has been said to have been her father’s hostage for three years. Now even the United Nations are investigating. There is a video of Latifa Al Maktoum in which she is flying. The sheikha races upside down towards the earth, below her the artificial palm islands of Dubai. The…
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‘I am truly afraid for my friend Princess Latifa’
Tiina Jauhiainen says the world must act on the desperate videos of the princess ‘held captive’ by her billionaire father in Dubai. In a villa close to Dubai’s popular Jumeirah Beach, as tourists enjoyed the pale sands and sea, a nightmare was playing out. My best friend, Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, had been imprisoned…
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Dubai’s disappearing princesses
The troubling plight of Dubai’s Princess Latifa has also revealed the worrying cases of other disappeared Emirati princesses The words from Princess Latifa, the daughter of Dubai’s ruler, are chilling. In a new secret recording smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates, the 35-year-old sounds fragile and frightened as she accuses her powerful father of…
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Campaign to free Princess Latifa says it has more unreleased videos from detained Dubai royal
The Free Latifa campaign said it would consider releasing more footage to pressure the UAE government. The campaign to free Princess Latifa said on Thursday that they have more videos from the detained Dubai royal that they may publish to further pressure the United Arab Emirates to free her. “We haven’t released everything that we…