After months without hearing from her, a photograph uploaded to social networks shows Princess Latifa, daughter of the emir of Dubai who denounced having been retained by her father. In what appears to be proof of life, the photograph – published this Saturday by the BBC – shows the princess looking directly at the camera with an apparently serene expression.. She is shown flanked by two smiling women in a shopping mall cafeteria.
“The appearance of the image is not accidental or accidental, but related to other undisclosed movements,” says the British chain, which claims that it has not been able to verify the photo.. The metadata appears deleted and it is not possible to determine the date or the place where the image was taken, posted on Instagram.
In the same Instagram account several images appear with the same protagonists, although with different clothing. In the image identified by the BBC, however, you can see the billboard of a cinema in the background that corresponds to the film 'Demon Slayer: Mugen Train', which premiered in Dubai on May 13, according to its online platform.. The image appeared on the social network on Thursday, in the accounts of the two women who appear with Latifa – her friends – and with the comment: “Wonderful evening at the Mall of the Emirates with friends.”
The co-founder of the campaign to free Latifa, Free Latifa, David Haigh, has affirmed to the public medium: “We confirm that there have been some significant and positive movements in the campaign. We have no intention of commenting at this stage, we will issue a statement at the appropriate time.”
For its part, the embassy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an entity that includes the city-state of Dubai, did not make statements.. Neither has the United Nations, which “waits for proof of life in the Latifa case”, for months.
The UN asked the UAE government in February for reliable proof that Princess Latifa, daughter of Emir Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktum, is “alive”. The broadcast of a video on the BBC, in which Latifa claimed to have been kidnapped and fearing for her own life, then caused alarm in the international community.
“We have expressed our concern about the situation (of the princess) in light of the video that has appeared this week,” said a spokeswoman for Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the time.