Social マスコミ postings appear to show Dubai 支配者's daughter

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Two images of Sheikha Latifa, a daughter of the 支配者 of Dubai, have appeared on Instagram in 最近の days, three months after the BBC 空気/公表するd a ビデオ message in which she said she was 存在 held 捕虜 in a バリケードd 郊外住宅.

The images, if 立証するd, would 示す one of the few times Latifa has been photographed in public since の直前に she 機動力のある a failed 試みる/企てる three years ago to escape her father's 支配(する)/統制する by 搭乗 a ヨット to sail across the Indian Ocean.

Since then, Latifa and her 支持者s (人命などを)奪う,主張する she has been held against her will on the orders of Sheikh Mohammed 貯蔵所 Rashid al-Maktoum, the 支配者 of Dubai and a 副/悪徳行為-大統領,/社長 of the 部隊d Arab 首長国s.

The sheikh and the UAE categorically 否定する the 告訴,告発s.

In April, U.N. 権利s 専門家s 需要・要求するd that the 部隊d Arab 首長国s show "proof of life" for and 解放(する) Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, 35, after the ビデオ 空気/公表するd in February by the BBC's investigative news programme Panorama.

A source の近くに to 選挙運動者s who have ロビーd for her 解放(する) said that the two pictures, 地位,任命するd on the Instagram account of Sioned Taylor, were 本物の and had been taken recently. Reuters could not 独立して 立証する whether Latifa has freedom of movement.

The UAE foreign 省 referred requests for comment on the Instagram images to the Dubai 政府's マスコミ office, which did not 答える/応じる when 接触するd by Reuters. When 接触するd by Reuters 経由で Instagram, Taylor, whose profile identifies her as a teacher at a 明言する/公表する-run Dubai school, did not 答える/応じる.

The first image, 地位,任命するd on Taylor's account on Thursday, shows Latifa outside a movie theatre inside a Dubai 商店街. An 宣伝 for a film 解放(する)d in Dubai on May 13 can be seen in the background.

The second image, 地位,任命するd on Taylor's account on Saturday, shows Latifa sitting outside a restaurant with the Dubai 商店街 in the 背景.

After the ビデオ 空気/公表するd by the BBC in February, the UAE 大使館 in London 問題/発行するd a 声明 説 Latifa was 存在 cared for at home by her family and 医療の professionals and that she would return to "public life at the appropriate time".

Latifa drew international attention in 2018 when a human 権利s group 解放(する)d a ビデオ made by her in which she 述べるd an 試みる/企てる to escape Dubai. She was 逮捕(する)d off the coast of India by special 軍隊s and taken 支援する to Dubai.

In March 2020, a London High 法廷,裁判所 裁判官 said he 受託するd as 証明するd a 一連の 主張s made by Sheikh Mohammed 貯蔵所 Rashid al-Maktoum's former wife, Princess Haya, in a 合法的な 戦う/戦い, 含むing that the sheikh ordered the 誘拐 of Latifa. The sheikh's lawyers 拒絶するd the 主張s.

In late 2018, Latifa's family 解放(する)d photos of her sitting with Mary Robinson, a former Irish 大統領,/社長 and a 国際連合 high commissioner for human 権利s. Robinson subsequently told the BBC that she was "tricked" during the visit and never asked Latifa about her 状況/情勢. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Michael Holden Editing by Nick Tattersall)

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