Dubai ruler’s wife seeks 'forced marriage protection order' in English court

he is the billionaire ruler of the UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum she is his sixth wife and Jordanian royalty Princess Haya they are rich connected and horsey winning multiple times at Royal Ascot but this spring the Sheikh went alone here's why Princess Haya was in family court today asking for a non molestation order and one to prevent her children from being forced into marriage she's hired the same lawyer as Prince Charles in his divorce from Diana she fled the Emirates last May ending up in this mansion near Kensington Palace with her two children setting in motion a potentially explosive custody battle at the high courts the leaked information is coming from both sides so we had the UAE saying that she was having an affair with her security officer and then we have her side saying that she actually learned disturbing facts that caused her to feel unsafe and fleeting UAE to establish herself in United Kingdom this custody case is reactivating another battle royale in Sheikh Mohammed's life one of his older daughters Princess Latifah by another wife tried to escape Dubai last year before being caught and returned she was complaining of mistreatment and oppression and her cases now the subject of a UN Human Rights investigation and are watching this video it's not such a big thing either I'm dead I'm very very very bad situation Latifah was returned against her will to the UAE yeah they put me in prison and they tortured me she's been seen in staged photos only once since then Human Rights Watch is concerned for her safety the ruling family of the United Arab Emirates is a quite a repressive in each in the sense of the United Arab Emirates is a police state it's one of the most oppressive places to be in the Gulf while at the same time appearing to be an incredibly modern state Princess Haya had always maintained that Latifah was loved and cared for within the family in Dubai but then came her own sudden departure and so far she's not publicly explained why Susan ormiston CBC News London

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Keywords: Dubai, ruler, princess haya bint al-hussein, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, forced marriage protection order, UAE, United Arab Emirates, estranged wife, legal battle, custody battle, London, Britain, custody, children, CBC, The National, Susan Ormiston

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Length: 2min 29sec (149 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 30 2019