That is expected to rise to 12.4% (around $72 billion) in 2027, according to the emirate's official numbers. Luxury hotels and a myriad of attractions have turned the country into a tourism magnet with the industry contributing around 12% (around $43 billion, €35 billion) of the country's GDP in 2019. Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed on Twitter that "we will certainly raise these new developments with the UAE."ĭubai has been meticulously constructing and successfully investing in its reputation as an open-minded focal point in the UAE.Īs a tax-free business destination and hub for the Far East, it presents itself as far more liberal than its neighbors Saudi Arabia, Oman or Saudi Arabia. Kenneth Roth, Executive Director at Human Rights Watch, is also scathing about Latifa's treatment. "Dubai benefits from a repressive neighborhood to portray itself as a bastion of liberalism, but behind the glistening façade is an uglier reality where critics are jailed, the rights of migrant workers are limited, and the ruler of Dubai locks up his adult daughter for wanting to escape life under his thumb," he told DW. He's called on UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan "to order the UAE Vice President and Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to release his hostage daughter without further delay and end a horrendous period of parental and human rights abuse that has significantly damaged the reputation of the UAE and has disgusted the world." Latifa's lawyer, and co-founder of the campaign, David Haigh of Detained International, a legal advocacy NGO in the UK is also pressing for her release. The Finnish sports instructor and best friend of Latifa puts her hopes on US Joe President Biden after his involvement in the release auf Saudi Arabia's human rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul.
"We lost contact over half a year ago, but I believe she is still alive," Jauhiainen told DW. Ever since her escape and forced return to Dubai in March 2018, she has been held in a villa that she refers to as a "jail." Tiina Jauhiainen and David Haigh, the co-founders of the Free Latifa campaign, have now released secretly recorded video footage, after they hadn't heard from Latifa in more than six months. Princess Latifa is one of Al Maktoum's estimated 30 children of several wives and has two sisters bearing the same name.
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum recorded her life in a jail villa but six months ago the messages to her friend stopped abruptly Dark side of the bright image
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