Emir of Dubai has kidnapped two of his daughters, according to British justice

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It is a judgment of the British justice whose emir of Dubai would have gone well. Mohammed ben Rached al-Maktouma had two of his daughters kidnapped and harassed his sixth wife, Princess Haya of Jordan, until he fled. Princess Haya has started legal proceedings in the UK to protect herself from the head of the government of the United Arab Emirates, and to obtain custody of her children. Children whose emir is asking for his return to Dubai.

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Before ruling, the British justice system had to rule on several incredible, but above all extremely violent episodes in the life of the Emirati family. We learned on Thursday that according to British justice, what Princess Haya of Jordan says is likely to be true.

The emir of Dubai would have well ordered the kidnapping of the two girls he had with another of his wives: one had tried to flee during a vacation in England in the year 2000, she would have been drugged, brought back forcibly to Dubai and locked up. The other claimed in a video published in 2018 that he too had been locked up and tortured after a failed escape attempt in 2002. None have been seen since.

Haya of Jordan, the sixth wife of the emir of Dubai, had fled the country last summer for London with her two children. She says that in 2019, when she began to be interested in the fate of her stepdaughters, her husband threatened her in various ways, he divorced her without telling her and tried to have her removed. Statements which the judge believes are probably true.

Mohammed ben Rached al-Maktouma for his part denied everything, he had tried to ban the publication of these judgments, but his request was rejected Thursday morning by the British Supreme Court.

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