New Instagram images seem to point out Dubai ruler’s daughter princess Latifa at malls

Two photos of Sheikha Latifa, a daughter of the ruler of Dubai, have appeared on Instagram in latest days, three months after the BBC aired a video message by which she stated she was being held captive in a barricaded villa.The photos, if verified, would mark one of many few occasions Latifa has been photographed in public since shortly earlier than she mounted a failed try three years in the past to flee her father’s management by boarding a yacht to sail throughout the Indian Ocean.Since then, Latifa and her supporters declare she has been held in opposition to her will on the orders of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and a vice-president of the United Arab Emirates.The sheikh and the UAE categorically deny the accusations. Sheikha Latifa, daughter of the ruler of Dubai, seems to be on on this undated image obtained from social media, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Reuters)In April, U.N. rights specialists demanded that the United Arab Emirates present “proof of life” for and launch Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, 35, after the video aired in February by the BBC’s investigative information programme Panorama.A supply near campaigners who’ve lobbied for her launch stated that the 2 footage, posted on the Instagram account of Sioned Taylor, have been real and had been taken just lately. Reuters couldn’t independently confirm whether or not Latifa has freedom of motion.Also See: The failed escape: Sheikha Latifa’s doomed flight from DubaiThe UAE international ministry referred requests for touch upon the Instagram photos to the Dubai authorities’s media workplace, which didn’t reply when contacted by Reuters. When contacted by Reuters by way of Instagram, Taylor, whose profile identifies her as a instructor at a state-run Dubai college, didn’t reply.The first picture, posted on Taylor’s account on Thursday, reveals Latifa outdoors a film theatre inside a Dubai mall. An commercial for a movie launched in Dubai on May 13 will be seen within the background.The second picture, posted on Taylor’s account on Saturday, reveals Latifa sitting outdoors a restaurant with the Dubai Mall within the backdrop.After the video aired by the BBC in February, the UAE embassy in London issued a press release saying Latifa was being cared for at residence by her household and medical professionals and that she would return to “public life at the appropriate time”.Also See: Dubai’s Princess Haya flees UAE with cash, youngsters: ExperiencesLatifa drew worldwide consideration in 2018 when a human rights group launched a video made by her by which she described an try to flee Dubai. She was captured off the coast of India by particular forces and brought again to Dubai.In March 2020, a London High Court choose stated he accepted as proved a collection of allegations made by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum’s former spouse, Princess Haya, in a authorized battle, together with that the sheikh ordered the kidnapping of Latifa. The sheikh’s attorneys rejected the allegations.In late 2018, Latifa’s household launched images of her sitting with Mary Robinson, a former Irish president and a United Nations excessive commissioner for human rights. Robinson subsequently instructed the BBC that she was “tricked” in the course of the go to and by no means requested Latifa about her state of affairs.Also Read | Exclusive: Phone monitoring adware probably used to seize Dubai princess, claims former assistAlso Read | Dubai ruler’s daughter secretly data video from villa, says being held in opposition to willAlso Read | Dubai says princess ‘residence’ after UN calls for proof of life