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  • I'm a hostage on board.

  • This villa has been converted into a jail.

  • All the windows are boarded shut.

  • I can't open it.

  • Yeah.

  • I don't know when I'll be released and what the conditions will be like when I'm released every day.

  • I am worried about my safety in my life.

  • I don't really know if I'm going to survive situation.

  • The police threatened me that I'll be imprisoned my whole life on.

  • I'll never see the sun again.

  • Mhm.

  • So I'm not allowed to drive.

  • I'm not allowed to travel or leave to buy it all.

  • I can't.

  • I have been left the country since 2000.

  • I've been asking ah lot just to go traveling, to study, to do anything.

  • Normally they don't.

  • I mean, that's my life basically is very restricted.

  • I need to leave.

  • I didn't hesitate.

  • I would say yes.

  • Of course.

  • That would be a great adventure on this small boat.

  • It was I don't know how Maney commandos maybe 12.

  • 15 and the two Emirati like lieutenants, sergeants I was fighting, and, uh, this guy came with a small pouch like a camouflage pouch and he took out the needle and he injected me in my arm and I was, like, fighting.

  • I was saying, Don't do that.

  • Don't do that.

  • Don't do that.

  • Yeah, he grabs me and he lifts me up, and I'm, like, kicking and fighting, and he's much bigger than me.

  • So I see that his sleeve is rolled up and his arm is exposed.

  • So I said, Okay, you have one shot.

  • So I just bite him as hard as I can and shake my head.

  • And he screamed.

  • The same guy tranquilized me again.

  • They put me on a stretcher, and as they were carrying me up the steps of the private jet is when I passed out like I lost consciousness.

  • All I remember was a rocking and seeing the stairs.

  • And then I just passed out.

  • I've been here ever since.

  • I've been by myself.

  • Solitary confinement.

  • Um, no access to medical help.

  • Um, no child or charge nothing.

  • She was lying on the floor and her hands were tied behind her.

  • Back on, she was simply repeating.

  • I'm seeking for political Silent E.

  • And she said to me to be like a test to see how you will react around people after being in prison for so long.

  • And if you're if you act well, you react well.

  • You're going to be out in a few days.

  • I began to explain that Latifa had quite a serious bipolar problem in a way that was very convincing.

  • We don't want Latifah to go through any further trauma.

  • Hey, introduced marry never said that she was a former U.

  • N.

  • Head of human rights.

  • Never.

  • If I knew that, of course, like, I would have said everything, but no, she never told me that the topics that we discussed during that lunch were sports veganism, the environment.

  • Do you regret no asking her more directly about the video or about her situation?

  • I talked about this, and I I suppose I'm not very familiar with people who are bipolar.

  • I didn't know how to address somebody who is bipolar about their trauma, etcetera.

  • I decided to give a pass on that.

  • So, you know, I wanted to talk to her doctors, but I really didn't actually want to talk to her.

  • Bond.

  • Increase the trauma over a nice lunch like we never discussed me.

  • You never discussed my case.

  • I was misled initially by my good friend Princess Higher because she was misled.

  • It was all a set up.

  • It was like they tricked me.

  • Yeah, What's happening?

  • Mhm!

  • Mhm on the major International news is of my step.

  • Mother is getting a divorce.

  • If of Dubai's billionaire ruler has reportedly fled to London with her two Children, she is currently in hiding in London, allegedly in fear for her life.

  • Today we're here to celebrate all that women are achieving.

  • We are incredibly grateful to be joined by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed.

  • Your presence here means so much this script extraordinary and damning allegations of abduction and intimidation.

  • It was a big breakthrough for all of us.

  • I thought that would have Bean a great evidence for the U.

  • N.

  • Toe.

  • Make a public statement Tau pressurize you a more or you know something that could have quickly led to her release.

  • But let's see if I was still held a prisoner.

  • I'm just getting so tired of everything.

  • Um it's like a circus.

  • I don't want to be a hostage in this jail.

  • Ovelar just want to be free.

  • I don't I don't know what they're planning to do with me.

  • I really don't know.

  • So the situation is getting more desperate every day, and I mean hey, it.

  • Yeah.

  • I'm just really, really tired of this now.

  • Good.

  • Yeah.

  • What if What if I don't get to speak to her again?

  • If we assume that she was caught with the phone, her conditions now are probably a lot worse since a lot of time has passed, we've taken the decision toe release some of this evidence.

  • There's been some some sleepless nights thinking about this.

  • Um, but it z time through something simple.

  • It's like my free are my not free.

  • I'm not free.

  • So Okay, the world is going to know that I'm not free.

  • I feel that she would want us to fight for her.

  • Anybody who cares gonna know that I'm not free and I'm not gonna go up along with propaganda.

I'm a hostage on board.

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