The outcome does not protect my children from media attention in the way that other children in family proceedings in the UK are protected. Apostasy from Islam and homosexuality are a crimes punishable by death, while women in the country require permission from male guardians to marry and remarry. Hamdan Bin Mohammed-al-maktoum is single. That August, the princess was apparently abducted in Cambridge by the Sheikh's staff while walking out of a bar and taken to an airport in southeast England, before being flown back to Dubai on a private jet. "Princess Haya is the sixth wife of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum – Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai.The 45-year-old is the younger half-sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan.She was educated at Oxford University, and represented Jordan at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, in showjumping.According to her official website, "sport has been a dominant part of life for Princess Haya since childhood. (Picture: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum and his wife Princess Haya at a horse-racing meeting in Epsom, in 2008. Credit: Getty Images) Posted at 9:33 3 Jul 2019. Hamdan Bin Mohammed-al-maktoum has not been previously engaged. The allegation, however, was found not proved by Sir Andrew. She stayed with her friends for six weeks in London before being found out by her family. In March 2018, Latifa, who changed her clothes and sunglasses, drove with Tiina across the UAE border to Oman, before setting out to sea.
Charles Geekie, a QC for Princess Haya, said there was 'interference' from the Foreign Office after the then Foreign Secretary, the late Robin Cook, expressed 'a direct interest' in the case.Sheikh Maktoum has denied all the allegations against him.
He is not dating anyone currently.
In March 2001, after having been contacted by a British solicitor who had spoken to Shamsa, Cambridgeshire Police began investigating the incident. The sheikh trained in the military before being appointed to head of the Dubai Police Force and Dubai Defence Force, and was the UAE's first defence minister in December 1971. The princess, 33, revealed in a video message that she had first attempted fleeing Dubai aged 16, but was apparently captured by her father's staff at the border, imprisoned for three years, beaten, and tortured.
In May, the Sheikh, 70, sent his lawyers to the High Court to demand the 'summary return' of his children to Dubai.It has backfired spectacularly, with him losing his children, his wife, and his international standing.Sheikh Maktoum, one of the world's richest men worth £9billion, and who is also prime minister and vice president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where a million Britons visit each year, has been found to have waged a terrifying campaign of harassment against his wife.Sir Andrew said: 'The mother has proved her case with respect to the factual allegations that she has made.
The Arab Organisation of Human Rights listed 16 different methods of torture used by the UAE Government, including electrocution. She has not been seen in public since.The judge's conclusions are that Princess Haya was subjected to a sustained campaign of fear and intimidation by her former husband. In a statement issued after the judgments were published, Sheikh Mohammed said: 'This case concerns highly personal and private matters relating to our children.
The ruler of Dubai is today found to have ordered the kidnap and torture of two runaway daughters - including one from the streets of Britain.The High Court said billionaire Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum - a friend of the Queen - had Princess Shamsa abducted from Cambridge after she went on the run in 2000.And it found he ordered commandos to snatch her sister Princess Latifa from a yacht in 2018 as she too tried to escape from Dubai.Their father - one of Britain's most important allies in the Middle East - has been declared responsible for both terrifying abductions. The pair, who had planned to seek political asylum in the US, faced a 26mile-trip by boat and jet ski out to international waters to meet Jaubert.