Dubai’s disappearing princesses

The troubling plight of Dubai’s Princess Latifa has also revealed the worrying cases of other disappeared Emirati princesses, reports Bel Trew

The Free Latifa campaign believes the princess is being held in a complex located in the heart of Dubai, near the popular tourist hotspot of Jumeirah

(Tiina Jauhiainen)

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 holding her hostage in a “jail villa” in Dubai after she tried to flee the Emirates in 2018.

“Every day I am worried about my safety and my life,” she says in the video recorded in the corner of a bathroom and smuggled out to friends. “I don’t really know if I’m going to survive the situation.”