File picture of Princess Latifa
In February, the UN human rights workplace requested for proof about Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum’s daughter after the BBC broadcast a video shot by Latifa saying she was being held captive and feared for her life.
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The United Nations mentioned Tuesday it was nonetheless ready for convincing proof that Sheikha Latifa, the daughter of Dubai’s ruler, was alive after two footage emerged purportedly exhibiting her in public. In February, the UN human rights workplace requested for proof about Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum’s daughter after the BBC broadcast a video shot by Latifa saying she was being held captive and feared for her life.
Sheikh Mohammed is the vp and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is one of many seven emirates. His 35-year-old daughter has not been seen in public since a foiled try to flee from the emirate in March 2018.
Two footage have been printed on an unverified Instagram account this week, purporting to indicate Latifa in a restaurant and in a shopping center in Dubai. AFP is unable to confirm the pictures or once they have been taken.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday informed reporters in Geneva that the UAE had declined touch upon the Instagram footage.
“The authorities of the United Arab Emirates has been participating with us on each diplomatic and authorities ranges on quite a lot of events over current weeks and that engagement continues,” UN rights office spokesman Rupert Colville said. “They have told us they will provide convincing proof of life in the case of Latifa. So we’re essentially awaiting their next step in this respect and will carefully examine any proposal that emerges.
“In terms of the photographs that emerged in the last few days, we don’t really have any comment to make on those at this point.
“We haven’t received them ourselves and have not been able to examine them.” In a press release in February, Dubai’s royal household insisted that Latifa was being “cared for at dwelling”. “We are hopeful she will return to public life at the appropriate time,” it mentioned.
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