Britain mentioned on Wednesday that it would like to see proof that Sheikha Latifa, one of the ruler of Dubai’s daughters, is nevertheless alive soon after the BBC published a “deeply troubling” video saying she was getting held against her will in a barricaded villa.
Asked if he would help seeing some type of proof from the United Arab Emirates that Sheikha Latifa was alive, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told Sky News tv: “Given what we’ve just seen, I think people would just at a human level want to see that she’s alive and well, of course, I think that’s a natural instinct and we would certainly welcome that.”
Raab told the BBC that the video was “deeply troubling”, that Britain was concerned about it and that the United Nations would be following up on the video.
Reuters could not independently confirm when or exactly where the video was recorded.
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum drew international interest in 2018 when a human rights group released a video produced by her in which she described an try to escape Dubai.
Last March, a London High Court judge mentioned he accepted as proved a series of allegations produced by Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum’s former wife, Princess Haya, in a legal battle, such as that the sheikh ordered the abduction of Latifa. The sheikh’s lawyers rejected the allegations.
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