Why Are Women Escaping Dubai?

“The Runaway Princesses,” Episode 4: Hostage


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With Madeleine Baran and Heidi Blake, Illustrations by Malika Favre
January 23, 2024
Latifa was captured and returned to Dubai. Secret recordings shed light on her desperate fate.
After Latifa was captured, her supporters heard nothing until one day, more than a year later, her friend Tiina received a message—a handwritten letter from Latifa, smuggled out of the villa where she was being held prisoner. Latifa’s supporters managed to equip her with a secret phone, which she used to make recordings that documented her ordeal. Her family had released carefully staged photos of her, saying that she was “vulnerable” and was being cared for at home. The world was told that Latifa was mentally ill, and that she’d been kidnapped by criminals and rescued by her father. Sheikh Mohammad called her return a “rescue mission.” But in her illicit recordings, Latifa insisted that her father was in fact the one holding her hostage. She said that she was all alone and under constant guard. But she swore that she would never let him destroy her dream of freedom.
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