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Sheikha Latifa in a video
How is Sheikha Latifa?
A video supports suspicions about the captivity of the daughter of the Emir of Dubai after a failed attempt to escape - now Great Britain is demanding a sign of life from Dubai for the woman.
In view of the pictures, the British government would appreciate it if people could see "that she is alive and well," said Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Sky News.
Raab described the video as "deeply disturbing".
See a young woman in great despair.
The government was concerned about this, Raab told the BBC.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a similar statement.
"We'll keep an eye on that," he said.
"This is obviously something we are concerned about, but the UN Human Rights Commission is looking into this." The United Nations said on Wednesday that it would be soliciting information from the United Arab Emirates on the welfare of women.
The BBC published a video on Tuesday allegedly from Sheikha Latifa (read more here).
In it, the 35-year-old reported that she was being held in a locked villa.
There was no response from Dubai.
"I'm a hostage and this villa has been turned into a prison," says the princess in the video.
All windows are barred.
She recorded the video in the bathroom of the villa because it was the only room she could lock behind her.
Reuters news agency was unable to verify when and where the video was recorded.
The Free Latifa campaign said it was able to smuggle a cell phone into the woman.
She secretly sent a series of video messages that had been recorded over the past two years.
Latifa is the daughter of Mohammed bin Raschid al-Maktum, the ruler of Dubai.
Two years ago, she is said to have tried in vain to leave the emirate on the Persian Gulf against her father's wishes.
A human rights group posted a video about their spectacular escape attempt.
Accordingly, she fled Dubai disguised with a friend in a car to the coast and from there with a rubber dinghy and jet skis to a waiting boat.
But in the end she was caught by a special unit off the Indian coast.
Dubai's government had briefly stated in April 2018 that Sheikha Latifa had been "brought back" to her family and that she was fine.
Latifa has not been seen in public since their escape;
the government of the emirates published photos of her only months later and assured her that she would receive all the "care and support necessary".
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