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The ruler of Dubai is treated with deference in the Irish horse-racing community. Now a friend of his daughter Latifa is demanding that they act over his treatment of his family and is attempting to enlist Mary Robinson to her ...
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The woman who helped Princess Latifa in her attempt to escape from Dubai has called on Irish horseracing authorities to ban Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum from the sport. Princess Latifa’s friend Tiina Jauhiainen said it is time for ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Despite her family's claims that she is safe and well in the UAE, campaigners have called out the Government for failing to investigate the welfare of the 'prisoner' royal. The Tories have been accused of “turning a blind eye” ...
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It’s the stuff of a dark fairy story: imprisoned daughters, a runaway bride and an overbearing father. Recent headlines about the family of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum have sent shockwaves around the world – and there’s no happy ending ...
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Government 'turned blind eye' to Dubai leader for failing to prosecute him over daughter's kidnap in Cambridge. Ministers have questioned why the Government failed to prosecute the ruler of Dubai over the kidnap of his daughter in Cambridge and for ...
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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, ...
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Princess Latifa has called for police to reinvestigate the disappearance of her sister in 2000. Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has said the UN Office of the High Commissioner should “seek the release” of Dubai princess Sheikha Latifa and ...
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What would the bloodstock magnate Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum have to do to provoke the same horror and indignation in the racing world as that picture of trainer Gordon Elliott sitting on a dead horse? Abduct two of his ...
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Alice ThomsonMarch 3, 2021, The Times Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum’s plaintive cries from her captivity are heart-rending. Here is a young woman who has been locked up by her father, the ruler of Dubai and the prime minister of ...
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It’s royal gifts as usual amid the mystery of the sheikh’s missing daughters The Queen has continued to accept gifts of racehorses from the ruler of Dubai, even after his wife fled to London in fear of her life. Horses ...
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The former president can use her global influence to pressurise Dubai For those of us who celebrated Mary Robinson’s election as Ireland’s first woman president in 1990 the vapour trails of euphoria lingered long after she had left Aras an ...
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The missing Dubai princess has appealed to British police to reinvestigate the fate of an older sister who disappeared in Cambridge two decades ago, according to a smuggled letter. Princess Latifa, 35, who says that she is being held captive ...
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Justine McCarthy is right to take to task former president Mary Robinson for her lunch with Princess Latifa, daughter and prisoner of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, billionaire ruler of Dubai (“Why I feel let down by Mary Robinson”, Comment, ...
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The daughter of the ruler of Dubai was seized by Indian commandos as part of a deal to extradite a British arms dealer, a United Nations panel has ruled. Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum was captured on a yacht off ...
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Emirati princess Latifa Al Maktoum has urged police in the UK to reinvestigate the disappearance of her older sister, Princess Shamsa. Princess Latifa, who says she has been held captive in a “villa jail” in Dubai by her father Sheikh ...
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In a handwritten letter given to British authorities on Wednesday, Latifa says a new investigation could help her secure her sister's release No TitleNo Description Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum attends the Global Women's Forum in Dubai, ...
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What the harrowing saga of a Dubai princess reveals about her country’s international reputation. In a series of recently released videos, Latifa Al Maktoum, a Dubai princess who was missing for more than a year, recounted her harrowing capture by ...
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An explosive hostage video from the daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum has put pressure on his racing interests in Australia. The ruler of Dubai should not be allowed to race in the Melbourne Cup or Sydney’s ...
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“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 ...
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His finely spun web has entangled the former Irish president, Mary Robinson, his estranged wife Princess Haya and the blue-bloods of the Irish Turf who tapped him for more than €5m for the redevelopment of the Curragh Racecourse. Dubai, his ...
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The former president can use her global influence to pressurise Dubai. For those of us who celebrated Mary Robinson’s election as Ireland’s first woman president in 1990 the vapour trails of euphoria lingered long after she had left Aras an ...
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The woman who tried to help Sheikh Mohammed’s daughter escape her oppressive family agonised over what to do with the footage. Tiina Jauhiainen was on holiday at her parents’ house in northern Finland in the spring of 2019 when her ...
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EXCLUSIVE: The Tory Maidenhead MP and former Prime Minister Theresa May flew out to the Gulf last year to speak at the Global Women's Forum event - which was founded by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Former PM Theresa ...
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At a certain point in Panorama’s 32-minute report, The Missing Princess, broadcast last Tuesday, a troubling story became disturbing. From wondering how Princess Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum was coping with being held captive by her father, the ruler of ...
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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 ...
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