Escape from Dubai: The mystery of the missing princess

This documentary made me sick... there was nothing new in it but it condensed it all in a powerful hour.

These are evil regimes. It is bad enough that we have to prop them up with every mile we drive - there's no alternative! But to fund them via luxury holidays seems obscene.

Anyone else picked on how the Cambridge police officer was practically sweating with fear? He was so careful with his words... "it would appear... evidence points to... a crime might have been committed". It showed clearly that the rule of law is nothing in front of money.

Nobody can protect these women because of their father's wealth... not even when one of them was on British soil

Reducing the number of foreigners working in, or visiting the UAE would have an impact. As a country they some series structural issues with a citizenship who are heavily reliant on oil money, to the point that the completion of education and subsequent skilled employment by citizens is low in comparison to other countries. This is despite free education and preferential employment.

As the world moves away from fossil fuels, those countries will suffer - refusing skill labour and tourism could have a significant impact.

Unskilled foreign workers in the UAE and across the Arab Peninsula suffer terrible abuses - they are pretty much slaves, victims of endentured labour practices.

The building of the World Cup stadium in Qatar was a human rights scandal.

Shocking story

But wasn't the bloke naive to think he could just sail out with her. He really didn't think it through. Men really don't like their women getting away.

In the programme they reported that Dubai is a top destination for British holidaymakers.
So we ordinary people can do something, however small. Just don’t go there, don’t support this regime.
The British royal family were portrayed as being very accepting of the PM (Latifa’s father) he is a big invester in British land, horses etc, they really should get themselves some integrity.

Horrific story. I wonder if she is alive but locked away like the first time, or have they killed her.

Very, very sad. I read that she wanted to die on the boat rather than return.

The whole system is sinister and frankly evil.

I read about this last week. Disturbing.

I hope she escaped from that helhole and lives happily in some other country, but that's probably very naive, considering she couldn't even have gotten on a plane without a male's permission.

If they aren't going to do anything about a missing princess, you really know how little they care about ordinary women, do you?

I just watched this and felt so sad. I have visited the UAE numerous times. This programme has put me off returning.
And its not just the UAE, the Indian Govt were complicit too. Corruption everywhere.