In a series of recently released videos, Latifa Al Maktoum, a Dubai princess who was missing for more than a year, recounted her harrowing capture by around a dozen commandos who raided a boat she was sailing 30 miles off the coast of India. After a struggle, one tranquilized her, and she fell unconscious. The princess eventually woke up, finding herself back in Dubai—the very place she had been trying to escape.
She now lives in solitary confinement in a villa converted into a prison, guarded by five male police officers on the outside and two female officers on the inside. She said they told her she would not be charged with a crime, but she would never see the sun again. Her captor, she said, is her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, and one of the Middle East’s most powerful leaders.
