Sheikha (Princess) Latifa Al Maktoum - FULL VIDEO - Escape from Dubai - #FreeLatifa

hello my name is lateesha mcpeanuts born on December 5 1985 my mom is Korean tomorrow she's from Algeria my father is a prime minister of UAE and the ruler of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum he has three daughters called Latifah I'm the middle one there's one older than me and one younger than me and he has two daughters called Mariam also I have 30 brothers and sisters total I had to say that in case this video is discredited in any way that no you know there is a Latifah Daren a Latifah there yeah there's three latifa's I'm one of them under Eddie Latifah my full sisters are Nathan and sham said they're both older than me and Margit he's younger than me and I'm making this video because it could be the last video I make yeah pretty soon I'm going to be leaving somehow and I'm not so sure of the outcome but I'm 99% positive it will work and if it doesn't then this video can help me because all my father cares about is his reputation he will kill people to protect his own reputation he he he only cares about himself and his ego so this video could save my life and if you are watching this video it's not such a good thing either I'm dead or I'm in a very very very bad situation so where do I begin in 2000 my sister Shem saw while she was on holiday in England she was 18 years old : 19 she ran away and in the two months that she it was free we were in contact and I was still in Dubai with my mom and my other sister where she had traveled with her stepmom and all of them so while she had said she escaped because she didn't have much freedom and divided she didn't have freedom to do the things like you know anybody in a civilized world would take for granted like driving a car or traveling or you know just making choices for your own future freedom of choice is not something that you know we have so when you have it you take it for granted and if you don't have it it's very very special so yeah she run away and the whole time she was communicating with me and I was 14 years old at that time and yeah shumsa was I saw her almost as a mother figure me I she's my big sister she's like a mother also to me cuz she really cared about me I would speak to her every single day so yeah when she left it was a little bit hard I was happy for her but at the same time I was worried about her and what she did was she also contacted one of her friends in Dubai whose name is Laila harab and she kept calling Laila and what my father has done is he went to lady's house and he tried to bribe her with the Rolex and he said we need to tap your phone to chuck hamsa to see where she is so that's what they did and later told Shem said she told her my phone is bugged they're trying to find you be careful and she told me that and I told her stop calling Laila because if you call her they're gonna find you I think she was very lonely in the UK by herself she had nobody else to talk to so she talked to us and she told me to Laila so yeah after two months they found her basically she was on the streets and a bunch of guys in a car just drove up they found her they grabbed her kicking and screaming threw her in the car and she was driven somewhere by helicopter she was driven to a helicopter somehow ended up in France and from France she came to Dubai she was drugged on the plane it was a private jet so nobody was checking anything she was drugged brought back to Dubai and basically put in this building it's the building it's called shame I which means tent in Arabic but it's not a tent it's just called the tent and it's on it's an inside palace the property of my stepmom and and she was kept there and locked there and during that time we could send her some things like clothes or whatever so we snuck in a telephone for her we meaning me and my adopted sister Mona Mona ella Mara we were in contact with her and we snuck in a telephone so we could talk to her so while she was inside she contacted some journalists in the UK and they released the story to the Guardian I think it was around May 2001 when the story came out I'm not really sure the stories Google shan't stomach two minutes the first things that come up her her escape and all of that so when the story came out I think they realized that somehow she was in a communication or something was happening whatever so the police went and they took Mona from her University and they questioned and tortured her and my sister Mehta came to my room and the evening the same day and she said when I was taken by the police and they're questioning her and beating her up basically what do you know about Jepson Mather was kind of acting like a like interrogator you know like I'm going to interrogate you to get the information for me I said I don't know anything and so anyway I went and I I told my other adopted sister Fatma Fatman tomorrow who by the way was kept in a cabin in our house she was kept another story she's kept in a cabin on our property but locked up separated from the rest of the family because she's naughty her naughty behavior she's she's rebellious so she's basically kept in a cage in her house and anyway I I wrote a note for her and I told our house made to give it to her to slide it under her door and she did and I told her you know Mona has been taken and she's been a question about the police and everything and then my just went crazy she just like broke down the window she she and the door she threw this the metal thing outside the window she she broke it she got out she took a knife she was threatening Ali who was like he's a chef but he's also like the brother-in-law of my father's right-hand man so he's kind of like in charge of the staff or whatever so she took a knife and she was threatening him like I want to see when I was a winner so they took my they returned prisoner they tortured her also and then they realized that she knew nothing we didn't tell her because we couldn't tell her that you're in contact with shrimpson anyway what happened after that yeah so that day I kind of lost everyone all my friends all my my sisters everything I lost everyone that it was it was very hard day for me and of course I lost my communication with Changsha so approximately a year later as a 16 year old I decided that I'm gonna escape back then I didn't have internet I didn't have I was very it was 2002 yeah internet existed but I didn't have it they wouldn't allow me to have internet I didn't have internet I didn't have the phone the only phone I had was given to me by my friend so it wasn't approved by my family or anything so I I decided I'm gonna escape I'm gonna go I'm gonna give you a E I'm gonna find a lawyer in another country like I'm gonna go to Amman I'm gonna just go there I'm gonna go find or something and I'm gonna help champs and the worst case scenario if they catch me they're gonna put me with her I'm gonna be in prison with her so at least I can see her and I'm happy and she knows that she has somebody with her and she's not gonna do anything anything crazy she's not gonna hurt herself she has her sister with her so she's not gonna do anything you know so I thinking either I got your help or I get to put in prison with her so in 2002 I escaped and they caught me at the border and yeah like I was very very naive I thought you could just go I thought you can just there's like a border and then there's like sand or what I didn't realize what the border looks like I've never been to a border in my life I didn't have internet to research it I didn't have anyone to talk to to give me advice I couldn't I was totally by myself I had no one nobody even knew what not give me my people my friends around me in school like they didn't know what I was going through I couldn't talk to anybody about it so yeah and I wasn't allowed out I wasn't allowed to go outside like I was going to school I would sometimes go to the family's tables towards right and approach from that I didn't do anything else and then I went home so I did I didn't have I was I didn't know anything so yeah they caught me at the border basically and that they found out who I was they brought me back to Dubai and my father's right-hand man put me in prison under my father's orders and then his all his CID guys they yeah they put me in prison and they tortured me basically one guy was holding me well the other guy was beating me and they did that repeatedly I think the first time they tortured me I didn't feel any pain because I was in so much shock I didn't it was like somebody was hitting me through a pillow or something I could see what they were doing but I just I was like are they just destroying my body what's going on I think I didn't even the paint didn't register because I think I was so mashach and it was a long day with this little sleep and I just depending I didn't I didn't feel the pain and it was like a half hour torture session and then the next times I was tortured it - it's for five hours and yeah I was just pulled from the bed driven to another location in in the palace and the same building the Hema the tent which is not a tent and yeah they tortured me I knew how long it was cuz I had a watch and they told me that your father told us to beat you until we kill you that's its orders your father's orders your father the ruler of Dubai that's what he said so all of this public image that he's trying to portray a human rights he's the most evil person I've ever met in my life he's pure evil there's nothing good in him he's responsible for so many people's deaths and ruining so many people's lives he doesn't care about anyone he only cares about its image its reputation and he will gladly kill somebody but he doesn't do it himself he just he he he doesn't do the dirty work himself he'll just get other people to do it he doesn't care after my uncle died he killed one of his wives he could take killed her everyone knows about it the Markin won because she was too her behavior was too outrageous she was too I did I think she just talked too much and he felt threatened by her so he just killed her of course he couldn't do that when my uncle is alive but he could do that dr. mangle died um everybody knows what kind of person he is so in total I was in prison for three years and four months I went in in June 2002 and I came out October 2005 I don't know do the mask but in 2003 for a week I came out of prison they put me back home home it's not home it's my house my mom's house they put me back there for a week and it was surreal when when I went home to see my mom I expected some sympathy maybe since Prison was not a normal prison experience it was some constant torture constant torture even when they weren't physically beating me up they would torture me they would switch off all the lights I was in solitary confinement by myself totally and there's no windows there's no light so when they switch off the light it was pitch black they could switch it off for days so I don't I didn't know when one day ended that the next began and then they would they would make sounds to harass me and then they would come in the middle of the night put me out to bed to beat me and it wasn't it wasn't a normal prison experience by any means it was just torture and yeah they didn't give me anything I didn't have a change of clothes so I wore the same clothes and I would try to stay as clean as possible but you know after the torture sessions I couldn't even walk so I would crawl to the bathroom to get water to open a tap to get some water I would just crawl on my hands and knees there was no medical help at all they didn't care they wanted me dead anyway and yeah so I I didn't have anything I had a thin mattress that had holes in it and had stains of blood and and it was disgusting smell so bad I had thin blanket also it was so disgusting and I had the clothes I was wearing and then I think in the last few months they gave me a toothbrush just one toothbrush you know so I didn't I didn't it was so hard to stay clean and towards the end they gave me some clothes clothes wash leg tied you know the clothes washing powder so I would use at all folder on my skin to try to stay clean you know it was really disgusting so yeah so after that experience I went to the house for one week and it was from that to a house with soap and clothes and this and that it was like a shock to me so I would shower like five times a day because I could there was warm water there was there was soap there was a towel there was clothes I couldn't believe it there's toothbrush there is food like like proper food not food and like a little container meat and rice meat and rice it wasn't like these little container boxes you know it was food that I can I can eat fresh food I was very very anemic when I came out I had lost so much weight all of my clothes were hanging off me and I couldn't I needed to get new clothes and everything was just a shock to me so I remember very weird but I remember when I came out to prison for the first time even in the car I remember the car felt like it was going so fast because I had not moved for one year in one month so the car felt like I was in a roller coaster I was like wow this is just going so fast and I when I went to tell him having all these people talking normally to me normal normal after what I've been through I don't know what normal is anymore you know like nothing is normal every time I mean even now I if I hear a noise I just wake up and I remember for a few years after I came out of prison whenever I could hear a noise outside the door I would just jump up out of bed you know I would just jump I wouldn't and I would stand on my feet because I'm ready you know I'm ready for for anything yeah so yes that wasn't a good time so after a week of being at the house back with my mom my mom my sister she didn't show me compassion at all actually what she said to me was you think your prison experience was bad there's other that's so much more worse than that and when that happened I felt really really disappointed and sad I really expected some compassion from her like like and as any kind of mother but there is no compassion I also didn't get any compassion for my sister make that she didn't that's okay you know it could've helped me if they wanted to but I didn't but at the same time they didn't put me inside where they could have helped me he could have visited me if they wanted to they could have fought for me little bit more they could have had some compassion but it they kind of looked at me like oh you did this to yourself no I didn't I didn't tell shops that to run away from England I didn't tell her to keep calling Leyla I didn't tell her to get caught I didn't I didn't do this to myself my only thing was I was trying to defend my sister and trying to help her and that's what happened to me so but to me being at the house so I only stayed in the house for one week because after one week I had somewhat of a breakdown I don't remember how exactly the fight started but I just kept screaming that I wanted to go see shrimps and I couldn't stop screaming it was like I can't explain it I literally just kept screaming and screaming that I want to see shrimps I want to see someone say shams and I ended up like I was physically trying to fight people so they were holding me and I don't remember who they called they called the police and at some point there was some men holding me again and then there was a doctor I saw a doctor and she injected me and then they took me either in a car or an ambulance I don't remember I think it was a car because I was just screaming I couldn't remember they they tried to tranquilize me didn't work the first time they put me in the hospital I remember temperately sticking things on me chocolates me again and then I just remember flashes of like being in the hospital bed and waking up and seeing people trying to feed me and then you know like waking up in the bathroom and then waking like I lost some time then I lost a few days I had no voice because I lost on my voice room on the screaming so yeah and and then it took me a while to I don't know how much they tranquilize me or what they gave me but I lost some days and and then yeah then I spent one week in the hospital and with no voice and the nurses there were very very very good and they were trying to make it as normal as possible for me like not not to treat me like a mental patient you know because I'm not a mental patient I told them what I went to you know with my very weak whisper I did I could talk to them and tell them like what happened to me and they were really good and they tried to to make me feel normal and anyway so after one week in the house and then one week in the hospital they put me back in prison again so in total I spent three years and four months in prison and I didn't know how long I'll be and therefore they just told me you know your father said would beat you till we kill you that's it and yeah it didn't matter to me they wanted to put it in lunch too so when I got out the second time when I got out of prison I I of course I I just I hated everyone I didn't trust any people at all like for me all people were bad all people were not to be trusted all people day they were just against you you know that's how I felt so I end a lot of time with animals with the horses with the dogs with cats with birds with just different kinds of animals I would spend my days with animals and then I would go to my room and watch movies or something but I wouldn't interact with people I didn't have anyone I trusted and then I yeah so it was it it took me I don't know I don't know how many years coming out of prison to two fully fully recover from that experience I don't know I don't know when I started to be mom I don't know if I'm normal ah I mean it's something that then really changes you you know makes you lose trust in people the summer of 2017 is when a lot of things changed that kind of pushed me to go like I can't wait any longer for chance' to get better so I can take her with me I I realized you know this took me almost 10 years to realize that me being here is not helping her at all I can't help her here I need to leave and that's the only way I can help her this only I can help myself I can help her I cannot a lot of people is to leave being here I cannot help her at all so and also in 2017 I I lost a good friend in the summer and it made me see how life is so so so short you know there's no guarantees just just there is no reason to keep waiting for somebody to make a change or somebody to be ready there's no reason to keep waiting just go you know just make the big step go schenzel we'll be fine without you and once you're gone you can help her so I need to make this video in case I don't make it it's not going to be in vain somebody will have some footage I have to I have to remember to say everything because this could be the last video I made I don't know what else to say I don't know they would for sure tried to discredit this video and say it's a lie or it's an actress or something for sure I don't know what does to say about me I just say more information about me I went to to Dubai english-speaking school when I was a kid and then I went to international school of short fat and then for one year at work today Latifah school for girls and then yeah when I got that to prison I was horse riding inside really stables and then I was scuba diving in fujairah and then I started skydiving it's got that Dubai so there's a lot of people who can who know me but they know my face I know how I talk they know me so even if they tried to discredit me I hope some of my friends along the way will say I know Latifah and that's really her and you know anyway I look like my sister Maya I look like my brother my Majid and they're both famous figures so even if they try to discredit me I look like my siblings so and I've also given copies of my passport and my certificates and all of that stuff goodish by the way I don't have possession of my passport they won't give me my passport my UAE passport is never in my possession I just got a photocopy of it when I did my oh my when I got when I did my GCSE exams after I left prison I did some exams and they required a passport copies I took a picture of my passport then and also when I did my my tandem writing for skydiving the essay I called they require some medical clearance and which requires a copy of your passport so I managed to copy the copy of my passport they wouldn't even give me my passport but they gave me a copy of my passport so I'm not allowed to try I'm not allowed to travel or leave Dubai at all I can't I haven't left the country since 2000 I've been asking a lot just to go travelling to study to do anything normal they they were don't let me I have to I have a curfew when I go out and I come back home after bit back at a certain time they my mom she always like she needs to know exactly where I am the drivers report back to my father's office where I go etc etc we have assigned drivers we're not allowed to get into anyone's car I have to go with the driver the driver has to know exactly where I am yeah so that's my life basically it's very restricted I can't I can't even go to another emirate without permission I can't so I have to be in Dubai yeah so yeah even if they try to discredit me I have a lot of data that they can't discredit me well they will try and then there will be discredited so yeah this could be my last with you I hope it isn't I hope I never use this video I hope this video just gets deleted and we're all okay mm but the speed you need it to be wait I don't know what else I need to say so uh what I'm hoping for after I leave is that I get my passport and I have freedom of choice in my life and I can help shumsa from wherever I am I can say give her her passport that I travel that you're sleeping and I think that's the only way to help anyone including myself III don't know what else to say I could talk about a lot of things that I've seen in my life when when when I was six months old my my father his sister wanted me mmm so she took me away from my mom so I lived for the first 10 years of my life in the palace believing that my aunt was in fact my mother and I would visit my real mother only once a year I would never sleep there just spend the day and go go to the palace at night and when my younger brother was 3 months old my mom also gave him well she that one was more voluntary because she didn't want me to be alone so she gave my brother to me sir that we were both together so yeah for the first 10 years of my life I was living a lie then I discovered who I was and then I went to live with my mom and I was fighting to go live with my mom I shan't say was fighting free for us to go and live with her so I always saw sham says this person who rescued me so I was trying really hard to rescue her so but it's so far I haven't been successful ah I know what else did probably do you'll probably tell sham said to make some video talking about how I'm a liar or try to discredit me or something like that for sure they will try to do that knowing them of course she will she has no freedom she can't do anything you know she's right now she's she has a psychiatrist with her and she's surrounded by nurses they're in her room when she sleeps they take notes of when she wakes up when she sleeps when she eats what she eats what she says the conversation she says they watch her take her pills they make sure that she takes all of her pills these these drugs to control my mind I don't know what they are and so her life is really controlled oh yeah and in the summer also what happened which I should have said is shanks I was discovered with a few mobile phones so my mom and my others stur they got paranoid that she was gonna try to contact me journalists in England again to talk to them about her situation or that try to tarnish my father's reputation basically they were scared at that so that's when her situation got more controlled that's when the psychiatrist was brought in to stay with her full-time she's already dealing with psychiatrist but never somebody who was staying with her like like as much as she is now and full-time nurses with her all the time basically like walking around with a cage following her you know so she has no no freedom so basically yeah I think I think what they will do is they will try to use her to discredit me that would be amazing because yeah they will treat they will try to use her to discredit me they will never be able to get me to discredit myself because you know they not gonna take me back alive so that's not gonna happen I don't know what else to say I mean this has been like a crazy almost two decades already since 2000 it started in 2018 now it's been it's been really really crazy a lot of people a lot of people's lives have been hurt a lot of people tortured a lot of people lost their lives a lot of things happen do you know he covers up a lot of murders he doesn't care my father he's the worst criminal you can ever imagine in your life and he has this image so modern in all this I have 30 brothers and sisters he doesn't he only puts the pictures and he has this public image like he's a family man that's all all he doesn't eat he it's just PR he has a son in Lebanon that he never sees he thought he met him maybe once or twice and he gave him a handshake you know when when his son came to Dubai he's neglected and so many so many of these kids it's not he's not a father he's really really custom really disgusting human being yeah the way he lives his life and the way he treats other people it's not what's being portrayed by the media his media remember to buy the media's control as is much of the Middle East I don't know what else to say I feel like if this then kills me or if I don't make it out alive at least there's the video as sad that it's come to this point I have to make a video but I have to I don't know what else to say trying to think of anything everything what else can I say about my life I really hope I don't need this video I'm treating up I won't need it I'm feeling positive about the future I'm feeling like it's a start of an adventure it's a start of me cleaning my life my freedom freedom of choice I don't expect it to be easy nothing's easy but I expect it to be the start of a new chapter in my life and one where I have some voice where I don't have to be silenced and I can talk about myself I can talk about chance I can talk about what happened with us yeah I'm really looking forward to that yeah I don't know I don't know how I'll feel just waking up in the morning or thinking I can do whatever I want today I can go wherever I want I have all the choices in the world like anyone does there'll be such a new different feeling I'd be amazing I'm really looking forward to that there's only so much you can do when you're trapped in a country and trapped by his restrictions there's only so much human being can do I'm looking forward to that and I'm looking forward to chance to having a better life I'm looking forward to a lot of things yeah I really feel like this is a start of just a new chapter in my life I have no reason to stay in Dubai at all I have no reason to come back here I have people I love but they can come see you know the people in my family do I care about my friends they can come see me wherever I am and that's also hard because I don't know where I'm gonna be after this I don't have I don't know where I'm gonna be based I don't know where where I can live I don't know anything I don't know what I'm going we don't know I know where I'm stopping I know where I have to be for a while but I don't know where I'll end up it was kind of nice also I have all the options then hopefully yeah did I forget to say anything what do I talk about do I talk about all the murders do I talk about other abuse I've seen do I talk about what I know what to talk about cuz that would be a very very long story and I shouldn't she he's responsible for a lot of deaths he is a major major criminal major criminal there is no justice here they don't care especially here female your life is so disposable they don't care he's even burned down houses to hide the evidence he's burned down houses he's crazy I think it's time that he faces the consequences of all the things that he's done in his life he will he will definitely face the consequences no matter what he does to me all the torture everything I'm not scared of him he doesn't scare me he's pathetic pathetic human being and he's gonna face the consequences of everything he's done not just to me but to everyone else he would face the consequences yeah okay nothing there's nothing it more in me to say no hopefully I don't eat this video any final words thank you to all my friends and to the people who really care about me and to my to the family members who do care about me you know who are not ought to be careful of me but some of you do thank you to those people and if I don't make it out I really hope that some positive change will happen from all of this

Channel: #FreeLatifa Official

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Keywords: Sheikha Latifa, Latifa, Al Maktoum, Escape from Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, #FindLatifa, #EscapefromDubai, #HumanRights, Free Latifa, Sheikh Mohammed, Dubai, UAE, Dubai Royal Family, Kidnap, Sheikha Latifa Al Maktoum, Royal Family, Human Rights, Godolphin, Princess Latifa, #FreeLatifa, Tiina Jauhiainen, David Haigh, Marcus Essabri, Women's Rights, United Nations, UN

Id: UN7OEFyNUkQ

Length: 39min 37sec (2377 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 11 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Rednaxila]

Just a reminder that she hasn’t been heard from since. She has appeared in photos at one event since, but appears to be drugged up.

This video was her only way out. And now it only has 30 upvotes on a subreddit about documentaries. Something needs to be done.

[u/floofnstuff]

Is there an update on her whereabouts? What hell she has been though, just hell

[u/roosterdeda]

This is more important that anyone realizes. It is part of a trend of impunity by those with the ability to do so. We all lose and suffer by loss of freedom in the face of autocratic powers.