1 00:00:00,199 --> 00:00:01,869 Hello. 2 00:00:01,869 --> 00:00:03,410 My name is Latifa Al Maktoum. 3 00:00:03,410 --> 00:00:08,290 I was born on December 5, 1985. 4 00:00:08,290 --> 00:00:10,870 My mom is Houria Ahmed Lamara 5 00:00:10,870 --> 00:00:12,500 She is from Algeria. 6 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:15,540 My father is Prime Minister of UAE 7 00:00:15,540 --> 00:00:17,380 and the ruler of Dubai, 8 00:00:17,380 --> 00:00:19,940 Mohammed bin Rashid Saeed Al Maktoum. 9 00:00:19,940 --> 00:00:21,940 He has three daughters called Latifa. 10 00:00:21,940 --> 00:00:23,350 I’m the middle one. 11 00:00:23,350 --> 00:00:27,020 There is one older than me and one younger than me. 12 00:00:27,020 --> 00:00:31,300 And he has two daughters called Mariam also. 13 00:00:31,300 --> 00:00:35,200 I have thirty brothers and sisters total. 14 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:36,900 I had to say that 15 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:40,800 in case this video is discredited in any way that 16 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,480 ‘no you know there is a Latifa there and a Latifa there’ 17 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:45,560 Yeah, there's three Latifas, I’m one of them. 18 00:00:45,620 --> 00:00:47,200 I’m the middle Latifa. 19 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,140 My full sisters are Maitha and Shamsa. 20 00:00:50,140 --> 00:00:51,820 They’re both older than me 21 00:00:51,820 --> 00:00:54,400 and Majid he’s younger than me. 22 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:00,680 And I’m making this video because it could be the last video I make. 23 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,120 Yeah. 24 00:01:05,459 --> 00:01:12,480 Pretty soon I’m going to be leaving somehow 25 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,820 and I’m not so sure of the outcome, but 26 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:22,820 I’m ninety-nine percent positive it will work. 27 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:26,000 And if it doesn’t then this video can help me 28 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,900 because all my father cares about is his reputation. 29 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:33,280 He will kill people to protect his own reputation. 30 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:39,280 He.. he only cares about himself and his ego. 31 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:44,500 So this video could save my life. 32 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:48,980 And if you are watching this video it’s not such a good thing. 33 00:01:48,980 --> 00:01:54,240 Either I’m dead or I’m in a very, very, very bad situation. 34 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,280 So where do I begin? 35 00:01:57,960 --> 00:01:59,340 In 2000, 36 00:01:59,340 --> 00:02:03,440 my sister Shamsa while she was on holiday in England. 37 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,940 She was 18 years old going on nineteen. 38 00:02:06,940 --> 00:02:08,429 She ran away. 39 00:02:08,429 --> 00:02:14,380 And in the two months that she was free 40 00:02:14,380 --> 00:02:17,680 we were in contact and I was still in Dubai 41 00:02:17,820 --> 00:02:19,989 with my mom and my other sister. 42 00:02:20,110 --> 00:02:23,140 Where she had traveled with her step-mom and.. 43 00:02:23,140 --> 00:02:24,520 and all of them. 44 00:02:25,820 --> 00:02:27,500 So while she.. 45 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:30,500 She escaped because she didn’t have much freedom in Dubai. 46 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:36,280 She didn’t have freedom to do the things like you know anybody in a civilized world 47 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:37,830 would take for granted like 48 00:02:37,830 --> 00:02:42,200 driving a car or traveling or you know just making choices 49 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,540 for your own future. 50 00:02:43,540 --> 00:02:47,570 Freedom of choice is not something that you know, we have. 51 00:02:47,570 --> 00:02:52,780 So when you have it, you take it for granted and if you don’t have it, it’s very very special. 52 00:02:52,780 --> 00:02:58,079 So yeah, she ran away and the whole time she was communicating with me. 53 00:02:58,079 --> 00:03:00,290 I was fourteen years old at that time. 54 00:03:00,290 --> 00:03:02,920 And yeah, Shamsa was.. 55 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:05,200 I saw her almost as a mother figure. 56 00:03:05,210 --> 00:03:07,299 Yeah, she’s my big sister. 57 00:03:07,299 --> 00:03:09,819 She’s like a mother also to me because she really cared about me. 58 00:03:09,820 --> 00:03:11,640 I would speak to her every single day. 59 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:14,580 So yeah when she left, it was a little bit hard 60 00:03:14,580 --> 00:03:17,800 I was happy for her but at the same time I was worried about her. 61 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,820 And what she did was, 62 00:03:19,820 --> 00:03:23,560 she also contacted one of her friends in Dubai 63 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,940 whose name is Leila ??Harab?? 64 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:29,640 and she kept calling Leila. 65 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:33,320 And what my father has done is he went to Leila’s house 66 00:03:33,460 --> 00:03:36,000 and he tried to bribe her with a Rolex 67 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 and he said we need to tap your phone 68 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,560 to track Shamsa to see where she is. 69 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:45,579 So that’s what they did. 70 00:03:45,580 --> 00:03:47,540 And Leila told Shamsa, she told her 71 00:03:47,540 --> 00:03:49,540 ‘My phone is bugged.’ 72 00:03:49,540 --> 00:03:51,379 ‘They’re trying to find you. Be careful.’ 73 00:03:51,380 --> 00:03:53,960 And Shamsa told me that and I told her, 74 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:58,500 ‘Stop calling Leila. Because if you'll call her they’re going to find you.’ 75 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:01,049 I think she was very lonely in the UK by herself. 76 00:04:01,049 --> 00:04:05,040 She had nobody else to talk to. So she talked to us and she kept talking to Leila. 77 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:09,329 So yeah after two months, they found her. 78 00:04:09,329 --> 00:04:12,180 Basically, she was on the streets 79 00:04:12,180 --> 00:04:15,620 and a bunch of guys in a car just drove up 80 00:04:15,620 --> 00:04:20,540 they found her, they grabbed her, kicking and screaming threw her in the car 81 00:04:20,540 --> 00:04:22,780 and she was driven somewhere 82 00:04:22,780 --> 00:04:26,360 by a helicopter.. she was driven to a helicopter somehow 83 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,300 ended up in France and from France she came to Dubai. 84 00:04:30,310 --> 00:04:33,890 She was drugged on the plane. 85 00:04:33,890 --> 00:04:36,820 It was a private jet, so nobody was checking anything. 86 00:04:36,820 --> 00:04:38,720 She was drugged, brought back to Dubai 87 00:04:39,020 --> 00:04:41,720 and basically put in this building. 88 00:04:43,340 --> 00:04:47,020 It’s the building, it’s called ‘Kheima’, which means ‘Tent’ in Arabic. 89 00:04:47,020 --> 00:04:49,340 But it’s not a tent, it’s just called ‘The Tent’ 90 00:04:49,340 --> 00:04:50,260 and 91 00:04:50,820 --> 00:04:53,060 And it’s on.. it’s in Zabeel Palace 92 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:56,780 the property of my step-mom Hind. 93 00:04:56,780 --> 00:04:59,240 And she was kept there and locked there. 94 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,080 And during that time, 95 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,480 we could send her some things like clothes or whatever. 96 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,120 So, we snuck in a telephone for her. 97 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:13,440 ‘We’ meaning me and my adopted sister Mona 98 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:15,280 Mona ??Al Lamara?? 99 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:18,520 We were in contact with her and 100 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,220 we snuck in a telephone, so we could talk to her. 101 00:05:21,220 --> 00:05:23,180 So while she was inside, 102 00:05:23,180 --> 00:05:26,420 she contacted some journalists in the UK 103 00:05:26,420 --> 00:05:29,380 and they released the story to The Guardian. 104 00:05:29,380 --> 00:05:33,880 I think it was around May 2001 when the story came out, I’m not really sure. 105 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:35,460 The stories.. 106 00:05:35,460 --> 00:05:38,460 Google ‘Shamsa Al Maktoum’ and it’s the first thing that come up. 107 00:05:38,460 --> 00:05:41,340 Her, her escape and all of that. 108 00:05:41,340 --> 00:05:45,760 So when the story came out, I think they realized that somehow she’s in a communication or 109 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,420 somebody was helping her or whatever. 110 00:05:47,420 --> 00:05:52,640 So the police went and they took Mona from her University 111 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,820 and they questioned and tortured her 112 00:05:55,820 --> 00:06:00,340 And my sister Maitha came to my room 113 00:06:00,340 --> 00:06:03,180 in the evening the same day, and she said 114 00:06:03,180 --> 00:06:07,000 ‘Mona was taken by the police and they’re questioning her 115 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,860 and beating her up basically 116 00:06:08,860 --> 00:06:10,580 what do you know about Shamsa?’ 117 00:06:10,580 --> 00:06:12,660 And Maitha was kind of acting like the interrogator. 118 00:06:12,660 --> 00:06:13,880 You know like.. 119 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,700 I’m gonna interrogate you to get information from you. 120 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:18,420 I said I don’t know anything. 121 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:21,140 And.. so anyway 122 00:06:21,140 --> 00:06:26,420 I went and I told my other adopted sister Fatima 123 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,280 Fatima ??Lamara?? 124 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:32,560 Who by the way was kept in a cabin in our house. 125 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:33,400 She was kept.. 126 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,520 It’s another story. 127 00:06:37,380 --> 00:06:42,400 She’s kept in a cabin on our property, but locked up. 128 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,360 Separated from the rest of the family because she’s naughty. 129 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:47,820 Her naughty behavior. 130 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:49,820 She's..She’s rebellious. 131 00:06:49,820 --> 00:06:53,220 So she’s basically kept in a cage in our house. 132 00:06:55,180 --> 00:07:00,260 And anyway.. I.. I wrote a note for her and 133 00:07:00,260 --> 00:07:03,860 I told our housemaid to give it to her 134 00:07:03,860 --> 00:07:05,920 to slide it under her door and she did. 135 00:07:05,980 --> 00:07:09,120 And I told her you know Mona has been taken and she’s being questioned by the police 136 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:10,420 and everything. 137 00:07:10,420 --> 00:07:15,580 And then Fatima just went crazy, she just like broke down the window.. she.. she.. 138 00:07:15,580 --> 00:07:16,580 and the door. 139 00:07:16,580 --> 00:07:20,069 She threw this.. the metal thing outside the window. 140 00:07:20,069 --> 00:07:21,180 She broke it. 141 00:07:21,180 --> 00:07:22,430 She got out. 142 00:07:22,430 --> 00:07:23,440 She took a knife. 143 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:28,560 She was threatening Ali, who is a.. like he is a chef.. 144 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,920 but he is also like.. the brother-in-law 145 00:07:30,930 --> 00:07:33,000 of my father’s right-hand man. 146 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,790 So he was kind of like in charge of the staff or whatever. 147 00:07:35,790 --> 00:07:37,200 So she took a knife and she was threatening him like 148 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:38,640 ʻI want to see Mona, I want to see Monaʼ 149 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,300 So they took Fatima. 150 00:07:40,300 --> 00:07:41,930 They put her in prison and they tortured her also. 151 00:07:41,930 --> 00:07:44,000 And then they realized that she knew nothing. 152 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:49,640 We didn’t tell her because we couldn’t tell her that we were in contact with Shamsa. 153 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:54,500 Anyway what happened after that, yeah so that day I kind of lost everyone. 154 00:07:54,510 --> 00:07:59,460 All my friends, all my.. my sisters everything. 155 00:07:59,460 --> 00:08:00,580 I lost everyone that day. 156 00:08:00,580 --> 00:08:02,560 It was.. it was very hard day for me. 157 00:08:03,420 --> 00:08:06,740 And of course I lost my communication with Shamsa. 158 00:08:07,580 --> 00:08:10,900 So approximately a year later 159 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:16,080 as a 16 year old I decided that I’m gonna escape. 160 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,120 Back then I didn’t have the Internet. 161 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,540 I didn’t have.. 162 00:08:20,540 --> 00:08:24,260 I was very.. it was 2002. 163 00:08:24,270 --> 00:08:27,490 Internet existed but I didn’t have it, they wouldn’t allow me to have Internet. 164 00:08:27,490 --> 00:08:28,490 I didn’t have Internet. 165 00:08:28,490 --> 00:08:29,490 I didn’t have phone. 166 00:08:29,490 --> 00:08:32,580 The only phone I had was given to me by my friend 167 00:08:32,580 --> 00:08:35,960 so it wasn’t approved by my family or anything. 168 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,320 So I decided I’m gonna escape. 169 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,840 I’m gonna go, I’m gonna leave UAE. 170 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,900 I’m gonna find a lawyer in another country. 171 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:46,270 Like I’m gonna go to Oman. 172 00:08:46,270 --> 00:08:49,620 I’m gonna just go there and I’m gonna find a lawyer or something 173 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:51,220 and I’m gonna help Shamsa. 174 00:08:51,230 --> 00:08:52,230 In the worst case scenario if they catch me, they’re gonna put me with her. 175 00:08:52,230 --> 00:08:56,210 I’m gonna be in prison with her, so at least I can see her and I’m happy and she knows 176 00:08:56,210 --> 00:08:58,850 that she has somebody with her and she’s not gonna do anything crazy. 177 00:08:58,850 --> 00:08:59,850 She’s not gonna hurt herself. 178 00:08:59,850 --> 00:09:01,500 She has her sister with her, so she’s not gonna do anything. 179 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:02,500 You know.. 180 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:06,010 So I was thinking either I get her help or I get to put in prison with her. 181 00:09:06,010 --> 00:09:08,520 So in 2002 I escaped. 182 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,000 And they caught me at the border. 183 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,470 And yeah like.. 184 00:09:14,470 --> 00:09:17,750 I was very, very naive I thought you could just go. 185 00:09:17,750 --> 00:09:21,400 I thought you can just.. there’s like a border and then there’s like sand or what.. 186 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,030 I didn’t realize what the border looks like. 187 00:09:23,030 --> 00:09:24,250 I’ve never been to a border in my life. 188 00:09:24,250 --> 00:09:26,180 I didn’t have Internet to research it. 189 00:09:26,180 --> 00:09:28,230 I didn’t have anyone to talk to, to give me advice. 190 00:09:28,230 --> 00:09:29,230 I couldn’t.. 191 00:09:29,230 --> 00:09:30,580 I was totally by myself. 192 00:09:30,580 --> 00:09:32,130 I had no one. 193 00:09:32,130 --> 00:09:37,520 Nobody even knew what.. like I mean.. people..my friends around me in school like 194 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,340 they didn’t know what I was going through. 195 00:09:40,340 --> 00:09:42,840 I couldn’t talk to anybody about it. 196 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:51,430 So yeah.. and I wasn’t allowed out. 197 00:09:51,430 --> 00:09:54,540 I wasn’t allowed to go outside.. like I was going to school. 198 00:09:54,540 --> 00:09:57,680 I would sometimes go to the family’s stables to horse ride 199 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:02,080 and apart from that I didn’t do anything else and then I went home. 200 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,260 So I did I didn’t have.. 201 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:05,680 I was.. 202 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:07,020 I didn’t know anything. 203 00:10:07,030 --> 00:10:11,800 So, yeah, I they caught me at the border basically and then they found out who I was. 204 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:19,540 They brought me back to Dubai and my father’s right-hand man put me in prison 205 00:10:19,540 --> 00:10:26,040 under my father’s orders and then his all his CID guys, they.. 206 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:30,740 yeah, they.. they put me in person and they tortured me. 207 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:40,360 Basically, one guy was holding me, while the other guy was beating me.. 208 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,360 and they did that repeatedly. 209 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,700 I think the first time they tortured me, I didn’t feel any pain 210 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:47,920 because I was in so much shock. 211 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:48,780 I didn’t.. 212 00:10:48,780 --> 00:10:51,300 It was like somebody was hitting me through a pillow or something. 213 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:54,450 I could see what they were doing, but I just.. 214 00:10:54,450 --> 00:10:57,270 I was like, are they just destroying my body? 215 00:10:57,270 --> 00:10:58,720 What’s going on? 216 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:02,370 I didn’t.. didn’t even.. the pain didn’t register because I think I was in so much 217 00:11:02,370 --> 00:11:09,520 shock and it was a long day with little sleep and I just.. the pain didn’t.. 218 00:11:09,780 --> 00:11:10,660 I didn’t.. 219 00:11:10,660 --> 00:11:14,060 I didn’t feel the pain and it was like a half hour torture session. 220 00:11:14,070 --> 00:11:16,360 And then the next times I was tortured, it was 221 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:22,520 for five hours and yeah I was just pulled from the bed 222 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:28,380 driven to another location in the palace 223 00:11:28,380 --> 00:11:29,900 in the same building, 224 00:11:29,900 --> 00:11:33,580 The Kheima, the tent, which is not a tent. 225 00:11:33,590 --> 00:11:36,600 And yeah, they tortured me. 226 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,040 I knew how long it was, because I had a watch 227 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:45,230 and they told me that your father told us 228 00:11:45,230 --> 00:11:47,250 to beat you until we kill you. 229 00:11:47,250 --> 00:11:51,390 That’s his orders, your father’s orders. 230 00:11:51,390 --> 00:11:56,040 Your father, the Ruler of Dubai, that’s what he said. 231 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:00,240 So all of this public image that he’s trying to portray human rights 232 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,000 Its bullshit. 233 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,400 He’s the most evil person I’ve ever met in my life. 234 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:06,820 He’s pure evil. 235 00:12:06,820 --> 00:12:09,040 There’s nothing good in him. 236 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,580 He’s responsible for so many people’s deaths 237 00:12:11,580 --> 00:12:14,880 and ruining so many people’s lives. 238 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:22,220 He doesn’t care about anyone. 239 00:12:22,220 --> 00:12:24,960 He only cares about his image, his reputation, 240 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:29,500 and he will gladly kill somebody, 241 00:12:29,500 --> 00:12:31,060 but he doesn’t do it himself. 242 00:12:31,060 --> 00:12:36,970 He just.. he.. he doesn’t do the dirty work himself. 243 00:12:36,970 --> 00:12:39,340 He’ll just get other people to do it. 244 00:12:39,340 --> 00:12:41,440 He doesn’t care. 245 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:47,380 After my uncle died, he killed one of his wives 246 00:12:47,380 --> 00:12:49,070 he killed.. he killed her 247 00:12:49,070 --> 00:12:51,820 everyone knows about it, the Moroccan one. 248 00:12:51,820 --> 00:12:54,240 Because she was too.. 249 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,240 her behavior was too outrageous. 250 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:57,240 She was too.. 251 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:58,240 I think..I think she just talked too much 252 00:12:58,240 --> 00:12:59,650 and he felt threatened by her. 253 00:12:59,650 --> 00:13:01,650 So he just killed her. 254 00:13:01,650 --> 00:13:03,900 Of course, he couldn’t do that when my uncle was alive, 255 00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:06,339 but he could do that after my uncle died. 256 00:13:06,340 --> 00:13:12,160 Everybody knows what kind of person he is. 257 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,220 So in total I was imprisoned for three years and four months. 258 00:13:15,220 --> 00:13:20,950 I went in June 2002 and I came out October 2005. 259 00:13:20,950 --> 00:13:23,320 I don’t know.. do the math. 260 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:28,600 But in 2003 for a week I came out of prison. 261 00:13:28,610 --> 00:13:30,760 They put me back home, 262 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,560 home, it’s not a home. 263 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:34,840 It’s my house, my mom’s house. 264 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,900 They put me back there for a week 265 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:41,060 and it was surreal. 266 00:13:42,580 --> 00:13:45,280 When I went home to see my mom 267 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,640 I expected some sympathy? 268 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,100 Maybe? 269 00:13:50,100 --> 00:13:54,720 Since prison was not a normal prison experience 270 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:59,380 it was constant torture, constant torture. 271 00:13:59,380 --> 00:14:01,540 Even when they weren’t physically beating me up 272 00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:02,800 they would torture me. 273 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,280 They would switch off all the lights. 274 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:08,400 I was in solitary confinement by myself totally 275 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:09,720 and there’s no windows, there’s no light, 276 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,880 so when they switched off the light, it was pitch black. 277 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,440 They could switch it off for days, so I didn’t know 278 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:17,040 when one day ended then the next began 279 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:18,800 and then they would.. 280 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,420 they would make sounds to harass me and 281 00:14:21,420 --> 00:14:22,720 then they would come in the middle of the night 282 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,600 pull me out of bed to beat me 283 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,420 and it wasn’t.. 284 00:14:28,420 --> 00:14:31,380 it wasn’t a normal prison experience by any means. 285 00:14:31,380 --> 00:14:32,730 It was just torture. 286 00:14:32,730 --> 00:14:33,899 And they didn’t give me anything. 287 00:14:33,899 --> 00:14:36,160 I didn’t have a change of clothes. 288 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,380 So I wore the same clothes and I would try to stay as clean as possible, 289 00:14:39,380 --> 00:14:41,980 but you know after the torture sessions I couldn’t even walk. 290 00:14:41,980 --> 00:14:46,060 So I would crawl to the bathroom to get water, to open a tap.. to get some water. 291 00:14:46,060 --> 00:14:47,490 I would just crawl on my hands and knees. 292 00:14:47,490 --> 00:14:49,220 There was no medical help at all. 293 00:14:49,220 --> 00:14:50,220 They didn’t care. 294 00:14:50,220 --> 00:14:51,980 They wanted me dead anyway. 295 00:14:51,980 --> 00:14:55,860 And yeah, so I didn’t have anything. 296 00:14:55,860 --> 00:15:00,580 I had a thin mattress that had holes in it and had stains of blood and shit 297 00:15:00,580 --> 00:15:03,131 and it was disgusting, smelled so bad. 298 00:15:03,131 --> 00:15:07,010 I had a thin blanket also was so disgusting. 299 00:15:07,010 --> 00:15:09,190 And I had the clothes I was wearing. 300 00:15:09,190 --> 00:15:12,970 And then I think in the last few months, they gave me a toothbrush, just one toothbrush, 301 00:15:12,970 --> 00:15:13,970 you know. 302 00:15:13,970 --> 00:15:16,130 So I didn’t.. 303 00:15:16,130 --> 00:15:20,570 I didn’t.. it was so hard to stay clean and towards the end they gave me some clothes, 304 00:15:20,570 --> 00:15:24,170 clothes washing.. like Tide, you know, the clothes washing powder. 305 00:15:24,170 --> 00:15:30,060 So I would use the clothes washing powder on my skin to try to stay clean you know. 306 00:15:30,060 --> 00:15:31,060 It was really disgusting. 307 00:15:31,060 --> 00:15:36,780 So, yeah.. so after that experience, I went to the house for one week and it was.. 308 00:15:36,780 --> 00:15:44,060 from that to a house with soap and clothes and this and that and it was like a shock to me. 309 00:15:44,060 --> 00:15:47,460 So I would shower like five times a day because I could. 310 00:15:47,460 --> 00:15:48,590 There was warm water. 311 00:15:48,590 --> 00:15:49,790 There was.. there was soap. 312 00:15:49,790 --> 00:15:50,810 There was a towel. 313 00:15:50,810 --> 00:15:51,810 There was clothes. 314 00:15:51,810 --> 00:15:52,810 I couldn’t believe it. 315 00:15:52,810 --> 00:15:53,810 There’s toothbrush. 316 00:15:53,810 --> 00:15:55,580 There was food like.. like proper food, 317 00:15:55,580 --> 00:15:57,160 not food in like little container 318 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,840 meat and rice, meat and rice. 319 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,200 It wasn’t like these little container boxes you know. 320 00:16:01,210 --> 00:16:02,270 It was food that I can.. 321 00:16:02,270 --> 00:16:05,340 I can eat fresh food. 322 00:16:05,340 --> 00:16:08,110 I was very, very anemic when I came out. 323 00:16:08,110 --> 00:16:09,800 I had lost so much weight. 324 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:14,061 All of my clothes were hanging off me and I couldn’t.. 325 00:16:14,061 --> 00:16:18,339 I needed to get new clothes. 326 00:16:18,339 --> 00:16:19,860 And everything was just a shock to me. 327 00:16:19,860 --> 00:16:23,520 So I remember, very weird, but 328 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,060 I remember when I came out to the prison for the first time 329 00:16:26,060 --> 00:16:30,360 even in the car, I remember the car felt like it was going so fast because 330 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,459 I had not moved for one year and one month. 331 00:16:34,459 --> 00:16:36,980 So the car felt like I was in a roller-coaster. 332 00:16:36,980 --> 00:16:41,000 I was like wow, this is just going so fast. 333 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,280 And when I went home having all these people talking normally to me. 334 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,040 Normal? Normal after what I’ve been through? 335 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:49,080 I don’t know what normal is anymore you know, like nothing is normal. 336 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:54,580 Every time..I mean even now.. 337 00:16:54,580 --> 00:16:58,900 I am.. if I hear a noise I just wake up and 338 00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:01,760 I remember for a few years after I came out of prison 339 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:04,380 whenever I could hear a noise outside the door 340 00:17:04,380 --> 00:17:06,480 I would just jump up out of bed, 341 00:17:06,489 --> 00:17:08,128 you know, I would just jump. 342 00:17:08,128 --> 00:17:11,398 I wouldn’t..and I would stand on my feet because I’m ready you know.. 343 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,240 I’m ready for anything. 344 00:17:15,180 --> 00:17:16,579 Yeah. 345 00:17:18,020 --> 00:17:25,079 So yeah.. that wasn’t a good time. 346 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:30,300 So after a week of being at the house back with my mom, my sister 347 00:17:30,300 --> 00:17:33,630 and she didn’t show me compassion at all. 348 00:17:33,630 --> 00:17:35,540 Actually, what she said to me was 349 00:17:35,540 --> 00:17:37,950 ʻYou think your prison experience was bad?ʼ 350 00:17:37,950 --> 00:17:40,700 ʻThere’s others that’s so much more worse than thatʼ 351 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:44,340 and when that happened I felt 352 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:48,360 really, really disappointed and sad. 353 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,920 I really expected some compassion from her like any.. 354 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:52,760 as any kind of mother 355 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:56,740 but there was no compassion. 356 00:17:57,980 --> 00:18:01,300 I also didn’t get any compassion from my sister, Maitha. 357 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:04,640 She didn’t, but that’s okay...you know 358 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,240 They could have helped me if they wanted to.. 359 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:10,440 but they didn’t.. 360 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:17,960 But at the same time they didn’t put me inside, but they could have helped me. 361 00:18:17,970 --> 00:18:20,320 They could've visited me if they wanted to. 362 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,379 They could've fought for me a little bit more. 363 00:18:22,380 --> 00:18:25,080 They could've had some compassion, but they kind of looked at me like 364 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:26,440 ‘Oh you did this to yourself’ 365 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,000 No I didn’t. 366 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,659 I didn’t tell Shamsa to run away from England. 367 00:18:29,659 --> 00:18:31,350 I didn’t tell her to keep calling Leila. 368 00:18:31,350 --> 00:18:32,519 I didn’t tell her to get caught. 369 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:33,420 I didn’t.. 370 00:18:33,420 --> 00:18:34,580 I didn’t do this to myself. 371 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:35,980 My only thing was.. 372 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,400 I was trying to defend my sister and trying to help her 373 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,480 and that’s what happened to me 374 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,240 So back to me being at the house. 375 00:18:44,259 --> 00:18:46,080 So I only stayed in the house for one week 376 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,500 because after one week I had somewhat of a breakdown 377 00:18:50,020 --> 00:18:53,000 I don’t remember how exactly the fight started, 378 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,700 but I just kept screaming that I wanted to 379 00:18:55,710 --> 00:18:58,790 go see Shamsa and I couldn’t stop screaming. 380 00:18:58,790 --> 00:19:00,520 It was like.. 381 00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:04,320 I can’t explain it. 382 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,920 I literally just kept screaming and screaming that 383 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:07,899 ‘I want to see Shamsa, I want to see Shamsa’ 384 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:08,960 ‘I want to see Shamsa’ 385 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,880 and that ended up like I was physically trying to fight people. 386 00:19:11,889 --> 00:19:14,970 So they were holding me and I don’t remember who they called. 387 00:19:14,970 --> 00:19:20,090 They called the police, but at some point there was some men holding me again. 388 00:19:20,090 --> 00:19:22,559 And then there was a Doctor. 389 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,640 I saw a Doctor and she injected me and they took me either in a car or an ambulance, 390 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,220 I don’t remember. 391 00:19:28,220 --> 00:19:31,420 I think it was a car because I was just screaming. 392 00:19:31,429 --> 00:19:32,429 I couldn’t remember. 393 00:19:32,429 --> 00:19:33,429 They tried to tranquilize me. 394 00:19:33,429 --> 00:19:34,429 It didn’t work the first time. 395 00:19:34,429 --> 00:19:35,429 They put me in the hospital. 396 00:19:35,429 --> 00:19:39,480 I remember them putting.. sticking things on me, tranquilizing me again. 397 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:47,830 And then I just remember flashes of like.. being in the hospital bed and waking up and 398 00:19:47,830 --> 00:19:51,580 seeing people trying to feed me and then you know.. like waking up in the bathroom and 399 00:19:51,580 --> 00:19:56,159 then waking up like I lost some time then I lost a few days. 400 00:19:56,159 --> 00:19:59,799 I had no voice because I lost all my voice from all the screaming. 401 00:19:59,799 --> 00:20:04,609 So yeah.. and then it took me a while to.. 402 00:20:04,609 --> 00:20:10,080 I don’t know how much they tranquilize me or what they gave me, but I lost some days. 403 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:14,180 And then yeah.. then I spent one week in the hospital 404 00:20:15,620 --> 00:20:18,880 and.. with no voice and the nurses 405 00:20:18,889 --> 00:20:21,820 there were very, very, very good. 406 00:20:21,820 --> 00:20:26,320 And they were trying to make it as normal as possible for me 407 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:31,100 like not, not to treat me like a mental patient you know.. 408 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:32,299 because I’m not a mental patient. 409 00:20:32,299 --> 00:20:36,570 I told them what I went through with my very weak whisper, I could.. 410 00:20:36,570 --> 00:20:44,760 I could talk to them and tell them like what happened to me and they were really good and 411 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:48,980 they tried to make me feel normal. 412 00:20:48,980 --> 00:20:53,860 And anyway so after one week in the house and then one week in the hospital, 413 00:20:53,860 --> 00:20:59,360 they put me back in prison again. 414 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:03,460 So in total I spent three years and four months in prison. 415 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:08,500 And I didn’t know how long I’ll be in there for. 416 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:14,480 They just told me you know your father said we’ll beat you until we kill you and that’s it. 417 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:20,820 And yeah, they didn’t manage to kill me. 418 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,340 They wanted to but they didn't manage to. 419 00:21:24,340 --> 00:21:31,440 So when I got out, the second time when I got out of prison, I.. 420 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,779 I of course I.. 421 00:21:34,779 --> 00:21:36,869 I just.. 422 00:21:36,869 --> 00:21:38,019 I hated everyone. 423 00:21:38,019 --> 00:21:39,980 I didn’t trust any people at all.. 424 00:21:39,980 --> 00:21:41,764 like for me all people were bad, 425 00:21:41,764 --> 00:21:43,640 all people were not to be trusted, 426 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,360 all people they were just against you, 427 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:47,700 you know, that’s how I felt. 428 00:21:47,700 --> 00:21:50,460 So I spent a lot of time with animals 429 00:21:50,460 --> 00:21:54,100 with the horses, with the dogs, with cats, with birds 430 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:56,019 with just different kinds of animals. 431 00:21:56,019 --> 00:21:58,300 I would spend my days with animals 432 00:21:58,300 --> 00:22:02,100 and then I would go to my room and watch movies or something, 433 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:04,520 but I wouldn’t interact with people. 434 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,780 I didn’t have anyone I trusted. 435 00:22:09,180 --> 00:22:17,780 And then I.. yeah, so it was.. it.. it took me.. 436 00:22:17,780 --> 00:22:18,700 I don’t know.. 437 00:22:18,700 --> 00:22:22,620 I don’t know how many years coming out of prison to fully 438 00:22:22,620 --> 00:22:26,140 fully recover from that experience. 439 00:22:30,620 --> 00:22:31,440 I don’t know. 440 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,179 I don’t know when started to be more normal. 441 00:22:33,179 --> 00:22:34,580 I don’t know if I’m normal now. 442 00:22:34,580 --> 00:22:36,360 I mean it’s something that 443 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:37,860 that really changes you, you know, 444 00:22:37,860 --> 00:22:41,160 makes you lose trust in people. 445 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,280 The summer of 2017 is when a lot of things changed, 446 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,000 that kind of pushed me to.. 447 00:22:49,140 --> 00:22:55,220 Go..like I can’t wait any longer for Shamsa to get better, so I can take her with me. 448 00:22:55,220 --> 00:23:00,739 I realized you know this took me almost ten years to realize 449 00:23:00,739 --> 00:23:04,899 that me being here is not helping her at all. 450 00:23:04,899 --> 00:23:05,929 I can’t help her here. 451 00:23:05,929 --> 00:23:06,929 I need to leave. 452 00:23:06,929 --> 00:23:09,619 And that’s the only way I can help her. 453 00:23:09,619 --> 00:23:10,879 That ’s only I can help myself. 454 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:11,600 I can help her. 455 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,760 I can help a lot of people, just to leave, being here.. 456 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,680 I cannot help her at all. 457 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:22,200 So.. and also in 2017, 458 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,560 I lost a good friend in the summer 459 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:31,009 and it made me see how life is so.. so short. 460 00:23:31,009 --> 00:23:32,990 You know. There’s no guarantee. 461 00:23:32,990 --> 00:23:38,960 It’s just, just.. there is no reason to keep waiting for somebody to make a change 462 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:39,970 or somebody to be ready. 463 00:23:39,970 --> 00:23:43,590 There’s no reason to keep waiting just go, you know.. just make the big step go. 464 00:23:43,590 --> 00:23:48,280 Shamsa will be fine without you and once you’re gone you can help her. 465 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,980 So I need to make this video. 466 00:23:51,980 --> 00:23:55,340 In case I don’t make it. 467 00:23:55,340 --> 00:24:03,260 It’s not gonna be in vain, somebody will have some footage. 468 00:24:03,260 --> 00:24:04,440 I have to.. 469 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,740 I have to remember to say everything because this could be last video I make. 470 00:24:07,740 --> 00:24:10,139 I don’t know what else to say. 471 00:24:10,140 --> 00:24:13,429 I don’t know what else to say. 472 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:21,700 They will for sure will try to discredit this video and say it’s a lie or it’s an actress 473 00:24:21,700 --> 00:24:24,260 or something for sure. 474 00:24:26,420 --> 00:24:28,760 I don’t know what else to says about me. 475 00:24:28,860 --> 00:24:32,280 I’ll just say more information about me. 476 00:24:32,289 --> 00:24:35,480 I went to Dubai English Speaking School when I was a kid 477 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,480 and then I went to International School of Choueifat 478 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,920 and then for one year I went to the Latifa School for Girls. 479 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,739 And then yeah when I got out of prison, I was horse riding, inside Zabeel stables. 480 00:24:45,739 --> 00:24:51,460 And then I was scuba diving in Fujairah and then I started skydiving at Skydive Dubai. 481 00:24:51,460 --> 00:24:56,570 So there’s a lot of people who can.. who know me. 482 00:24:56,570 --> 00:24:58,260 They know my face. They know how I talk. 483 00:24:58,260 --> 00:24:59,040 They know me. 484 00:24:59,260 --> 00:25:02,260 So even if they try to discredit me, I hope 485 00:25:02,260 --> 00:25:04,679 some of my friends along the way would say 486 00:25:04,679 --> 00:25:07,760 ʻI know the Latifa and that’s really herʼ and you know 487 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,169 Anyway I look like my sister Maitha. 488 00:25:11,169 --> 00:25:15,049 I look like my brother Majid and they’re both famous figures. 489 00:25:15,049 --> 00:25:20,040 So even if they try to discredit me, I look like my siblings. 490 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,480 So.. 491 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:27,160 And I’ve also given copies of my passport and my certificates and all of that stuff, 492 00:25:27,169 --> 00:25:28,350 which by the way.. 493 00:25:28,350 --> 00:25:32,249 I don’t have possession of my passport, they won’t give me my passport. 494 00:25:32,249 --> 00:25:35,090 My UAE passport is never in my possession. 495 00:25:35,090 --> 00:25:38,060 I just got a photocopy of it when I did my.. 496 00:25:39,100 --> 00:25:40,440 oh my.. 497 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,399 when I got when I did my GCSE exams 498 00:25:44,399 --> 00:25:47,639 after I left prison, I did some exams and they required passport copies. 499 00:25:47,639 --> 00:25:50,720 I took a picture of my passport then 500 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:56,000 and also when I did my tandem rating for skydiving, 501 00:25:57,860 --> 00:26:01,380 the FAI? I think that’s what it’s called.. they require some medical clearance 502 00:26:01,380 --> 00:26:03,580 and which requires a copy of your passport, 503 00:26:03,580 --> 00:26:05,460 so I managed to copy.. the copy of my passport. 504 00:26:05,460 --> 00:26:10,060 They wouldn’t even give me my passport, but they gave me a copy of my passport. 505 00:26:10,060 --> 00:26:11,700 So I’m not allowed to drive. 506 00:26:11,710 --> 00:26:15,129 I’m not allowed to travel or leave Dubai at all. 507 00:26:15,129 --> 00:26:17,680 I can’t. I haven’t left the country since 2000. 508 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,440 I’ve been asking a lot just to go traveling to study to do anything normal. 509 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,859 They don’t let me. 510 00:26:25,859 --> 00:26:26,860 I have to.. 511 00:26:26,860 --> 00:26:28,669 I have a curfew when I go out and I come back home.. 512 00:26:28,669 --> 00:26:30,880 I have to be back at a certain time. 513 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:35,220 They.. my mom she always like she needs to know exactly where I am. 514 00:26:35,229 --> 00:26:39,929 The drivers report back to my father’s office where I go etcetera, etcetera. 515 00:26:39,929 --> 00:26:41,840 We have assigned drivers. 516 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,739 We’re not allowed to get into anyone’s car. 517 00:26:43,739 --> 00:26:44,889 I have to go with the driver. 518 00:26:44,889 --> 00:26:47,470 The driver has to know exactly where I am. 519 00:26:47,470 --> 00:26:50,700 Yeah, so that’s my life basically. 520 00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:51,940 It’s very restricted. 521 00:26:51,940 --> 00:26:52,940 I can’t.. 522 00:26:52,940 --> 00:26:55,280 I can’t even go to another Emirate without permission. 523 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:56,260 I can’t. 524 00:26:56,260 --> 00:26:58,780 So I have to be in Dubai. 525 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,080 Yeah. 526 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:04,040 So, yeah, even if they try to discredit me, 527 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:10,540 I have a lot of data that they can’t discredit me. 528 00:27:10,549 --> 00:27:17,840 Well, they will try and then they will be discredited. 529 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,460 So, yeah, this is going to be my last video. 530 00:27:20,540 --> 00:27:21,640 I hope it isn’t.. 531 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,620 I hope I never use this video. 532 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:30,740 I hope this video just gets deleted and we’re all okay 533 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,880 but this video needed to be made. 534 00:27:36,540 --> 00:27:39,080 I don’t know what else I need to say. 535 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:45,760 So what I’m hoping for after I leave is 536 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:47,860 that 537 00:27:49,420 --> 00:27:51,240 I get my passport 538 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,760 and I have freedom of choice in my life 539 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,600 and I can help Shamsa from wherever I am. 540 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,340 I can say give her her passport. 541 00:28:02,340 --> 00:28:03,300 Let her travel. 542 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:04,680 Let her see me. 543 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:05,420 And 544 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,200 I think that’s the only way to help anyone including myself. 545 00:28:14,580 --> 00:28:16,599 I don’t know what else to say. 546 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,500 I can talk about a lot of things that I’ve seen in my life. 547 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:31,840 When..when I was six months old, my father’s sister wanted me. 548 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,400 So she took me away from my mom. 549 00:28:36,580 --> 00:28:39,560 So I lived for the first ten years of my life in the palace 550 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,000 believing that my aunt was in fact my mother 551 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,409 and I would visit my real mother only once a year. 552 00:28:45,409 --> 00:28:46,570 I would never sleep there. 553 00:28:46,570 --> 00:28:49,080 I’d just spend the day and go to the palace at night. 554 00:28:50,980 --> 00:28:54,080 And when my younger brother was three months old, 555 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,500 my mom also gave him. 556 00:28:58,860 --> 00:29:02,940 Well, she.. she that one was more voluntary because she didn’t want me to be alone, 557 00:29:02,940 --> 00:29:07,140 so she gave my brother to me, so that we’re both together. 558 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,940 So yeah for the first ten years of my life I was living a lie 559 00:29:10,940 --> 00:29:14,160 then I discovered who I was and then I went to live with my mom 560 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,419 and I was fighting to go live with my mom and 561 00:29:15,419 --> 00:29:19,759 Shamsa was fighting for us to go and live with her. 562 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,880 So I always saw Shamsa as this person who rescued me. 563 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,860 So I was trying really hard to rescue her, so.. 564 00:29:26,860 --> 00:29:30,320 But so far I haven’t been successful. 565 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,660 I know what else they’ll probably do. 566 00:29:36,669 --> 00:29:43,799 They’ll probably tell Shamsa to make some video talking about how I’m a liar or try 567 00:29:43,799 --> 00:29:45,580 to discredit me or something like that. 568 00:29:45,580 --> 00:29:47,620 For sure they will try to do that.. 569 00:29:47,620 --> 00:29:48,960 knowing them. 570 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,099 Of course, she will. 571 00:29:50,099 --> 00:29:51,450 She has no freedom. 572 00:29:51,450 --> 00:29:52,840 She can’t do anything you know. 573 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,760 She’s.. right now she’s.. 574 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,460 she has a psychiatrist with her 575 00:29:58,460 --> 00:30:00,660 and she’s surrounded by nurses. 576 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,760 They’re in her room when she sleeps. 577 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,780 They take notes of when she wakes up, 578 00:30:05,780 --> 00:30:08,379 when she sleeps, when she eats, what she eats, 579 00:30:08,379 --> 00:30:10,140 what she says, the conversation she says, 580 00:30:10,140 --> 00:30:11,620 they watch her, take her pills, 581 00:30:11,620 --> 00:30:13,560 they make sure that she takes all of her pills, 582 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,220 these..these drugs to control her mind, 583 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:17,400 I don’t know what they are. 584 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,920 And so her life is totally controlled. 585 00:30:20,929 --> 00:30:23,800 Oh yeah in the summer also what happened, which 586 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,260 I should have said is, 587 00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:32,780 Shamsa was discovered with a few mobile phones. So.. 588 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:38,320 my mom and my other sister they got paranoid 589 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,160 that she was gonna try to contact the journalists in England again 590 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,900 to talk to them about her situation or whatever, 591 00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:47,399 try to..to tarnish my father’s reputation basically. 592 00:30:47,399 --> 00:30:48,889 They were scared of that. 593 00:30:48,889 --> 00:30:51,980 So that’s when her situation got more controlled. 594 00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:55,009 That’s when the psychiatrist was brought in to stay with her full-time. 595 00:30:55,009 --> 00:30:58,749 She’s already dealing with psychiatrist but never somebody who was staying with her 596 00:30:58,749 --> 00:31:00,740 like.. like as much as she is now. 597 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,460 And full-time nurses with her all the time. 598 00:31:04,460 --> 00:31:08,280 Basically like walking around with a cage following her you know, 599 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,280 so she has no.. no freedom. 600 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:11,280 So basically yeah I think.. 601 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,019 I think what they will do is they will try to use her to discredit me. 602 00:31:14,020 --> 00:31:15,240 That would be amazing 603 00:31:16,180 --> 00:31:17,760 because.. 604 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,220 yeah they will..they will try to use her to discredit me. 605 00:31:21,220 --> 00:31:24,600 They will never be able to get me to discredit myself because 606 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,000 you know.. 607 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,100 they’re not gonna take me back alive, 608 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,820 so that’s not gonna happen. 609 00:31:35,820 --> 00:31:37,720 I don’t know what else to say. 610 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:44,920 I mean this..this has been like a crazy almost two decades already since 2000 it started. 611 00:31:45,900 --> 00:31:49,500 We're in 2018 now, it’s been.. it’s been really, really crazy. 612 00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:50,660 A lot of people.. 613 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,540 a lot of people’s lives have been hurt, 614 00:31:54,540 --> 00:31:57,320 a lot of people tortured, 615 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,560 a lot of people lost their lives, 616 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,220 a lot of things happened... you know 617 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:03,780 He.. He covers up a lot of murders. 618 00:32:03,780 --> 00:32:05,880 He doesn’t care, my father. 619 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:12,420 He’s the worst criminal you can ever imagine in your life 620 00:32:12,420 --> 00:32:15,700 and he has this image of so modern 621 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:18,719 and all this bullshit. 622 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,040 I have thirty brothers and sisters. 623 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:21,820 He doesn’t.. 624 00:32:21,820 --> 00:32:27,591 He only puts the pictures and he has his public image like he’s a family man, 625 00:32:27,591 --> 00:32:29,539 that’s all.. all bullshit. 626 00:32:29,540 --> 00:32:30,640 He doesn’t. 627 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,360 It’s just PR. 628 00:32:34,060 --> 00:32:36,980 He has a son in Lebanon that he never sees. 629 00:32:36,990 --> 00:32:40,200 He saw.. he met him maybe once or twice and he gave him a handshake.. 630 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,129 you know when his son came to Dubai. 631 00:32:43,129 --> 00:32:47,020 He’s.. he’s neglected and so many, so many of his kids. 632 00:32:47,020 --> 00:32:48,580 He’s not a.. He’s not a father. 633 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,180 He’s really, really disgusting, 634 00:32:51,180 --> 00:32:53,360 really disgusting human being. 635 00:32:59,820 --> 00:33:00,620 Yeah, 636 00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:06,560 the way he lives his life and the way he treats other people 637 00:33:09,540 --> 00:33:15,740 It's not what’s been portrayed by the media, his media. 638 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,840 Remember in Dubai, the media is controlled 639 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,240 as is much of the Middle East. 640 00:33:25,540 --> 00:33:27,220 I don’t know what else to say. 641 00:33:29,020 --> 00:33:31,800 I feel like if this thing kills me 642 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,909 or if I don’t make it out alive at least there’s a video. 643 00:33:33,909 --> 00:33:41,420 It’s sad that it’s come to this point that I have to make a video, but I have to. 644 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:44,140 I don’t know what else to say. 645 00:33:45,260 --> 00:33:47,920 trying to think of anything, everything, 646 00:33:48,740 --> 00:33:52,540 what else can I say about my life. 647 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,180 I don’t know what else to say. 648 00:34:02,700 --> 00:34:08,760 I really hope I don’t need this video. 649 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:14,120 And I’m feeling I won’t need it. 650 00:34:14,129 --> 00:34:17,760 I’m feeling positive about the future 651 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:22,679 and I’m feeling like it’s a start of an adventure. 652 00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:29,539 It’s a start of.. of me claiming my life, my freedom, freedom of choice. 653 00:34:29,539 --> 00:34:33,219 I don’t expect it to be easy, nothing is easy, 654 00:34:33,219 --> 00:34:37,620 but I expect it to be the start of a new chapter in my life 655 00:34:38,060 --> 00:34:42,340 and one where I have some voice 656 00:34:42,340 --> 00:34:46,079 where I don’t have to be silenced 657 00:34:46,079 --> 00:34:48,980 and I can talk about myself, I can talk about Shamsa. 658 00:34:48,980 --> 00:34:51,920 I can talk about what happened with us. 659 00:34:56,460 --> 00:35:01,180 Yeah, I’m really looking forward to that. 660 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:05,700 Yeah, I don’t know, 661 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:12,800 I don’t know how..how I’ll feel just waking up in the morning 662 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:13,800 and thinking.. 663 00:35:13,809 --> 00:35:15,230 I can do whatever I want today. 664 00:35:15,230 --> 00:35:16,900 I can go wherever I want. 665 00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:20,500 I have all the choices in the world like anyone does. 666 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,079 That’ll be such a new different feeling. 667 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:26,640 That would be amazing. 668 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,480 I’m really looking forward to that. 669 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,036 There’s only so much you can do when you’re trapped in a country 670 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,640 and trapped by all these restrictions. 671 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,119 There’s only so much a human being can do. 672 00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:43,770 I’m looking forward to that and I’m looking forward to Shamsa having a better life. 673 00:35:43,770 --> 00:35:47,100 I’m looking forward to a lot of things. 674 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:59,320 Yeah, I really feel like this is a start of just a new chapter in my life. 675 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:05,550 I have no reason to stay in Dubai at all. 676 00:36:05,550 --> 00:36:07,820 I have no reason to come back here. 677 00:36:07,820 --> 00:36:10,839 I have people I love, but they can come see me. 678 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:15,620 You know the people in my family who I care about, my friends, 679 00:36:15,620 --> 00:36:18,040 they can come see me wherever I am. 680 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:20,900 And that’s also hard because I don’t know where I’m gonna be after this. 681 00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:21,600 I don’t have.. 682 00:36:22,980 --> 00:36:25,300 I don’t know where I’m gonna be based. 683 00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:28,360 I don’t know where.. where I can live. 684 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,380 I don’t know anything. 685 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:31,860 I don’t know where I’m going. 686 00:36:31,860 --> 00:36:33,180 We don’t know. 687 00:36:33,180 --> 00:36:35,600 I know where I’m stopping. 688 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:41,400 I know where..where I have to be for a while, but I don’t know where I’ll end up. 689 00:36:41,410 --> 00:36:44,309 It is kind of nice also. 690 00:36:44,309 --> 00:36:48,980 I have all the options then, hopefully. 691 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:55,500 Yeah.. did I forget to say anything? 692 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,380 What do I talk about? 693 00:36:58,380 --> 00:36:59,680 Do I talk about all the murders? 694 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,120 Do I talk about all the abuse I’ve seen? 695 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,120 Do I talk about.. what? 696 00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:12,140 I don’t know what to talk about 697 00:37:12,140 --> 00:37:16,560 because that would be a very, very long story. 698 00:37:19,340 --> 00:37:22,900 I don’t know. 699 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:29,280 I should, shouldn’t I? 700 00:37:34,820 --> 00:37:38,720 He’s responsible for a lot of deaths. 701 00:37:39,900 --> 00:37:44,200 He is a major major criminal, major criminal. 702 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,220 There is no justice here. 703 00:37:46,220 --> 00:37:51,980 They don’t care, especially if you’re female, your life is so disposable. 704 00:37:51,980 --> 00:37:53,640 They don’t care. 705 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,660 He’s even burned down houses to hide the evidence. 706 00:38:01,660 --> 00:38:03,560 He’s burned down houses. 707 00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:06,840 He’s crazy. 708 00:38:09,860 --> 00:38:16,480 I think it’s time that he faces the consequences of all the things that he’s done in his life. 709 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,220 He will. 710 00:38:18,220 --> 00:38:20,800 He will definitely face the consequences. 711 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:25,220 No matter what he does to me, all the torture.. everything, I’m not scared of him. 712 00:38:25,220 --> 00:38:26,360 He doesn’t scare me. 713 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:27,400 He’s pathetic 714 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,980 Pathetic human being. 715 00:38:30,980 --> 00:38:33,536 And he’s gonna face the consequences of everything he’s done 716 00:38:33,536 --> 00:38:35,470 not just to me, but to everyone else. 717 00:38:35,470 --> 00:38:37,680 He will face the consequences. 718 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,200 Yeah. 719 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:51,460 Okay, I think there’s nothing more in me to say now. 720 00:38:52,940 --> 00:38:55,080 Hopefully, I don’t need this video. 721 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,420 Any final words.. 722 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,140 Any final words.. 723 00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:14,580 Thank you to all my friends and to the people who really care about me 724 00:39:14,580 --> 00:39:16,960 and to my.. to the family members who do care about me, 725 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,060 you know who you are, 726 00:39:18,060 --> 00:39:20,960 not all of you care about me, but some of you do. 727 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,040 Thank you to those people. 728 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,680 And if I don’t make it out, 729 00:39:27,980 --> 00:39:32,180 I really hope there’s some positive change will happen from all of this. 730 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,960 Okay.