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Re: Dubai Royals
By: Cara Date: July 30, 2019, 5:29 pm
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i think that what's really at stake here is the custody of the
children, this is also why she went to court today. he wants the
children back and she wants them with her in the UK. she
"applied for a wardship of the couple's children alongside a
forced marriage protection order to prevent them from being
taken abroad."
She also asked for a "non-molestation" order for herself. that i
had never heard of!
he, of course, wants his children back in Dubai.
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Re: Dubai Royals
By: ABS Date: July 31, 2019, 6:17 am
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I wouldn´t want to be ther judge!
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Re: Dubai Royals
By: Tigerben Date: September 7, 2019, 3:48 pm
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Well well well , looks like her brother have her a job that
will provide extra security and protection .
His Majesty King Abdullah II Appoints His Sister Princess Haya
Bint Al Hussein as Diplomat at Jordan Embassy in Britain,
According to Al-Quds Al-Arabi
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Re: Dubai Royals
By: ABS Date: September 7, 2019, 5:15 pm
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I am glad to hear that!
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Re: Dubai Royals
By: Cara Date: November 13, 2019, 7:41 am
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interesting article on haya's case.
HTML https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/why-do-dubais-princesses-keep-trying-to-escape?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=vf&utm_mailing=VF_CH_11122019&utm_medium=email&bxid=5c7465b73f92a468444cbfde&cndid=18922668&hasha=06da4079d046a74087a115f142661079&hashb=dee2f7c43892c521353bc58009d753ab1d6521f0&hashc=a8d64b297fbf91f40f4d4151e5f66b4ff65f8cd9457a28017b656c58a7247b74&esrc=GAsweeps&utm_campaign=VF_CH_11122019&utm_term=VYF_Cocktail_Hour
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Re: Dubai Royals
By: Princess Savoir Date: November 18, 2019, 8:32 pm
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Caraara, Great article! Scary to be in the Dubai Royal family. I
hope she can stay away with her children forever.
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Re: Dubai Royals
By: Cara Date: March 6, 2020, 4:41 am
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sooo the court rendered its judgment in haya's case and it's
quite damning for her ex-husband.
also damning for the UK to some extent, in that some services
protected Mo when he had one of his daughters abducted.
it appears that Mo divorced Haya without telling her, threatened
her, tried to deport her to a prison, she also claims that he
wanted to marry her daughter to the saudi crown prince (the
court however rejected that claim as unproven)...
i feel for his daughters, one of them being held captive for the
the past 20 years.
"Calls for Sheikh Mohammed to face justice over family abduction
UK judge ruled that ruler of Dubai orchestrated abduction of
daughters and intimidated his wife"
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/05/calls-for-sheikh-to-face-justice-over-family-abduction
Ministers, police and prosecutors are under pressure to bring
the ruler of Dubai to justice after a UK judge ruled that he
orchestrated the abduction of two of daughters – one from the
streets of Cambridge.
The damning family court judgment naming Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid al-Maktoum, who is a friend of the Queen and one of the
UK’s most important figures in horse-racing, risks destabilising
diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates, a close Gulf
ally.
His behaviour was described by the judge, Sir Andrew McFarlane,
on the balance of probabilities as amounting to potentially
breaking English and international law.
The ruling found that the police officer investigating the
abduction of Princess Shamsa from Cambridge in 2000, when she
was 19, was prevented from travelling to Dubai to pursue his
criminal inquiries.
DCI David Beck of Cambridgeshire police was denied permission to
fly out to the Gulf to interview “potential witnesses” after
making a formal request to the Crown Prosecution Service, the
ruling found. The Foreign Office refused to hand over its files
on the case to the court.
The Guardian and other news organisations can reveal the ruling
following months of private hearings and a legal dispute that
reached the supreme court. It details an extraordinary family
saga spanning 20 years during which the sheikh, 70, organised
international kidnappings, imprisoned both Shamsa and another
daughter, Latifa, and “deprived [them] of their liberty”.
Princess Latifa, then 32, was seized by Indian army commandos
from the Indian Ocean in 2018 after fleeing her home, and was
forcibly returned to Dubai.
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Allegations of torture surfaced during the case. Latifa said she
was exposed at one stage to “constant torture”, and the judge,
while he did not make any finding on that specific point, said
he felt confident in relying upon her account. She claimed to
have been kept in solitude in the dark and beaten repeatedly.
The sheikh’s actions emerged after his sixth and youngest wife,
Princess Haya, 45, fled to London last April with their two
young children. His attempt to return the children to Dubai
triggered a legal action in the family courts.
Haya resisted it with a counter-claim seeking a forced marriage
protection order in respect of their daughter, alleging that the
sheikh was trying to marry her off to the crown prince of Saudi
Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. ‘MBS’, as he
is better known, has been accused of involvement in the murder
of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The court did not
find this allegation to be true.
The judgment raises questions about whether the Foreign Office
blocked the police investigation into the disappearance of
Shamsa, after she had fled to Cambridge from Surrey in 2000.
McFarlane said he was unable to make a determination because the
Foreign Office refused to cooperate on freedom of information
grounds.
Following the ruling, Labour’s shadow attorney general, Shami
Chakrabarti, said: “This is clearly a shocking judgment. Both
Priti Patel [the home secretary] and Dominic Raab [the foreign
secretary] must urgently investigate why a criminal inquiry into
a kidnap in Cambridge appears to have been impeded.”
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David Haigh, the British lawyer for Princess Latifa, told the
Guardian that he was sending the judgment to the United Nations’
working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances, which
is already investigating Latifa’s disappearance.
“We are delighted with the judgment,” he said. “It’s vindication
for everything we have been saying, vindication for Shamsa,
Latifa and Haya.”
Haigh said that he and Tiina Jauhiainen, Latifa’s close friend,
had been interviewed at the end of last year by Cambridge
police, who are still investigating Shamsa’s abduction. He
added: “It is now clear to see why Sheikh Mohammed did not want
these judgments to be made available to the world. They show him
as someone unfit to be in charge of children, let alone a state
that is an ally of the UK.”
Sheikh Mohammed’s behaviour was first highlighted by a Guardian
article in 2001, the judgment noted, adding that Haya read the
story about Shamsa’s disappearance in 2016 but initially did not
believe her husband was implicated.
Sheikh Mohammed is also the vice-president and prime minister of
the United Arab Emirates. He has fathered 25 children; his two
with Haya are the youngest.
He refused to attend any of the multiple hearings at the Royal
Courts of Justice in central London. His wife, Haya, was a
constant presence in court, sitting alongside her solicitor, the
prominent divorce lawyer Lady Shackleton.
The judgment goes into detail about the campaign of harassment
endured by Haya. The judge accepted virtually all her
allegations as true on the balance of probabilities, including
that the sheikh:
Attempted to have her abducted by helicopter.
Arranged for guns to be left in her bedroom.
Taunted her over her adulterous relationship with a bodyguard.
Divorced her without telling her.
Threatened to seize their children.
Published threatening poems about her online.
McFarlane finds that their relationship had deteriorated and
that sometime in 2017 or 2018 she “embarked upon an adulterous
relationship with one of her male bodyguards”.
In early 2019, Haya began to show interest in the fate of her
husband’s daughters, Shamsa and Latifa. According to the
judgment, the sheikh began to make threats against her and in
February, divorced her under sharia law without informing her.
On 11 March that year, the judgment records, a helicopter landed
near her compound in Dubai and the pilot told her he was going
to take her to Awir, “a prison in the desert”.
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Haya said that if her son had not been there and clung on to her
leg, she would have been taken away. The judgment added: “Flight
documents with respect to the helicopter have been disclosed and
show that one of the crew was one of the three people named by
Shamsa and [an employee of the sheikh] as being involved in
Shamsa’s removal from England in 2000.”
It continues: “Throughout this period the mother received a
series of anonymous notes, left in her bedroom or elsewhere,
making threats, for example ‘We will take your son – your
daughter is ours – your life is over’ or warning her to be
careful ... On two occasions in March 2019, the mother states
that she found a gun left on her bed with the muzzle pointing
towards the door and the safety catch off.”
In June, the sheikh published a poem entitled You Lived and
Died. Haya saw it as a direct threat to her and a public
announcement of her “betrayal”.
The poem stated: “You traitor, you betrayed the most precious
trust. I exposed you and your games … I have the evidence that
convicts you of what you have done … You know your actions are
an insult … Let’s see if mischief brings you benefits, I care
not whether you live or die.”
McFarlane’s judgment explains that his ruling “may well involve
findings, albeit on the civil standard, of behaviour which is
contrary to the criminal law of England and Wales, international
law, international maritime law, and internationally accepted
human rights norms”.
The civil standard is a conclusion made on the balance of
probabilities; that is, the allegation is more likely than not
to be true. It is not a finding to the criminal standard, which
is beyond a reasonable doubt.
McFarlane ends his judgment saying: “These findings, taken
together, demonstrate a consistent course of conduct over two
decades where, if he deems it necessary to do so, the father
[Sheikh Mohammed] will use the very substantial powers at his
disposal to achieve his particular aims.”
The sheikh has denied all the allegations against him. In a
statement issued to the media, he said: “This case concerns
highly personal and private matters relating to our children.
The appeal was made to protect the best interests and welfare of
the children. The outcome does not protect my children from
media attention in the way that other children in family
proceedings in the UK are protected.
“As a head of government, I was not able to participate in the
court’s fact-finding process. This has resulted in the release
of a ‘fact-finding’ judgment which inevitably tells only one
side of the story. I ask that the media respect the privacy of
our children and do not intrude into their lives in the UK.”
Neither the Foreign Office, Crown Prosecution Service nor
Cambridgeshire police commented.
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Re: Dubai Royals
By: ABS Date: March 6, 2020, 4:49 am
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Like a horror story! Haya and her children will never be able to
relax.
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Re: Dubai Royals
By: ABS Date: May 18, 2020, 7:26 pm
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60 Minutes Australia on the case. They make good programmes.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syGpm7DM-4g
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Re: Dubai Royals
By: Cara Date: November 20, 2020, 2:58 pm
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Princess Haya paid her British bodyguard lover £1.2 million to
keep quiet about their affair and the luxury gifts she gave him
including a £12,000 watch and vintage shotgun
Princess Haya, the youngest wife of Dubai ruler, had a two year
affair with British bodyguard Russell Flowers
She bought him numerous gifts including a £50,000 vintage
shotgun, a signet ring and luxury watches
The 46-year-old is understood to have paid three other
bodyguards £1.2m each to keep quiet over 2016 affair
Her relationship with Flowers ended the former soldier's
four-year marriage, leaving his wife bereft
The princess fled Dubai in 2018 to escape ex Sheikh Mohammed Al
Maktoum and now lives in London
It is understood the mother-of-two disputes a number of the
claims made about the affair with Flowers
HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8945801/Princess-Haya-paid-British-bodyguard-1-2m-quiet-affair-fled-Dubai-ruler.html
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