WEBVTT 00:00:00.199 --> 00:00:01.869 Hello. NOTE Paragraph 00:00:01.869 --> 00:00:03.410 My name is Latifa Al Maktoum. 00:00:03.410 --> 00:00:08.290 I was born on December 5, 1985. 00:00:08.290 --> 00:00:10.870 My mom is Houria Ahmed Lamara 00:00:10.870 --> 00:00:12.500 She is from Algeria. 00:00:12.500 --> 00:00:15.540 My father is Prime Minister of UAE 00:00:15.540 --> 00:00:17.380 and the ruler of Dubai, 00:00:17.380 --> 00:00:19.940 Mohammed bin Rashid Saeed Al Maktoum. 00:00:19.940 --> 00:00:21.940 He has three daughters called Latifa. 00:00:21.940 --> 00:00:23.350 I’m the middle one. 00:00:23.350 --> 00:00:27.020 There is one older than me and one younger than me. 00:00:27.020 --> 00:00:31.300 And he has two daughters called Mariam also. 00:00:31.300 --> 00:00:35.200 I have thirty brothers and sisters total. 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:36.900 I had to say that 00:00:36.900 --> 00:00:40.800 in case this video is discredited in any way that 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:43.480 ‘no you know there is a Latifa there and a Latifa there’ 00:00:43.480 --> 00:00:45.560 Yeah, there's three Latifas, I’m one of them. 00:00:45.620 --> 00:00:47.200 I’m the middle Latifa. 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.140 My full sisters are Maitha and Shamsa. 00:00:50.140 --> 00:00:51.820 They’re both older than me 00:00:51.820 --> 00:00:54.400 and Majid he’s younger than me. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:00.680 And I’m making this video because it could be the last video I make. 00:01:00.680 --> 00:01:02.120 Yeah. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:05.459 --> 00:01:12.480 Pretty soon I’m going to be leaving somehow 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:16.820 and I’m not so sure of the outcome, but 00:01:17.320 --> 00:01:22.820 I’m ninety-nine percent positive it will work. 00:01:22.820 --> 00:01:26.000 And if it doesn’t then this video can help me 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.900 because all my father cares about is his reputation. 00:01:29.900 --> 00:01:33.280 He will kill people to protect his own reputation. 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:39.280 He.. he only cares about himself and his ego. 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:44.500 So this video could save my life. 00:01:44.500 --> 00:01:48.980 And if you are watching this video it’s not such a good thing. 00:01:48.980 --> 00:01:54.240 Either I’m dead or I’m in a very, very, very bad situation. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:54.240 --> 00:01:56.280 So where do I begin? NOTE Paragraph 00:01:57.960 --> 00:01:59.340 In 2000, 00:01:59.340 --> 00:02:03.440 my sister Shamsa while she was on holiday in England. 00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:06.940 She was 18 years old going on nineteen. 00:02:06.940 --> 00:02:08.429 She ran away. 00:02:08.429 --> 00:02:14.380 And in the two months that she was free 00:02:14.380 --> 00:02:17.680 we were in contact and I was still in Dubai 00:02:17.820 --> 00:02:19.989 with my mom and my other sister. 00:02:20.110 --> 00:02:23.140 Where she had traveled with her step-mom and.. 00:02:23.140 --> 00:02:24.520 and all of them. 00:02:25.820 --> 00:02:27.500 So while she.. 00:02:27.500 --> 00:02:30.500 She escaped because she didn’t have much freedom in Dubai. 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 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:37.830 would take for granted like 00:02:37.830 --> 00:02:42.200 driving a car or traveling or you know just making choices 00:02:42.200 --> 00:02:43.540 for your own future. 00:02:43.540 --> 00:02:47.570 Freedom of choice is not something that you know, we have. 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. 00:02:52.780 --> 00:02:58.079 So yeah, she ran away and the whole time she was communicating with me. NOTE Paragraph 00:02:58.079 --> 00:03:00.290 I was fourteen years old at that time. 00:03:00.290 --> 00:03:02.920 And yeah, Shamsa was.. 00:03:02.920 --> 00:03:05.200 I saw her almost as a mother figure. 00:03:05.210 --> 00:03:07.299 Yeah, she’s my big sister. 00:03:07.299 --> 00:03:09.819 She’s like a mother also to me because she really cared about me. 00:03:09.820 --> 00:03:11.640 I would speak to her every single day. 00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:14.580 So yeah when she left, it was a little bit hard 00:03:14.580 --> 00:03:17.800 I was happy for her but at the same time I was worried about her. 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:19.820 And what she did was, 00:03:19.820 --> 00:03:23.560 she also contacted one of her friends in Dubai 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:25.940 whose name is Leila ??Harab?? 00:03:27.300 --> 00:03:29.640 and she kept calling Leila. NOTE Paragraph 00:03:29.640 --> 00:03:33.320 And what my father has done is he went to Leila’s house 00:03:33.460 --> 00:03:36.000 and he tried to bribe her with a Rolex 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.000 and he said we need to tap your phone 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.560 to track Shamsa to see where she is. 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:45.579 So that’s what they did. 00:03:45.580 --> 00:03:47.540 And Leila told Shamsa, she told her 00:03:47.540 --> 00:03:49.540 ‘My phone is bugged.’ 00:03:49.540 --> 00:03:51.379 ‘They’re trying to find you. Be careful.’ 00:03:51.380 --> 00:03:53.960 And Shamsa told me that and I told her, 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:58.500 ‘Stop calling Leila. Because if you'll call her they’re going to find you.’ 00:03:58.500 --> 00:04:01.049 I think she was very lonely in the UK by herself. 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. NOTE Paragraph 00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:09.329 So yeah after two months, they found her. 00:04:09.329 --> 00:04:12.180 Basically, she was on the streets 00:04:12.180 --> 00:04:15.620 and a bunch of guys in a car just drove up 00:04:15.620 --> 00:04:20.540 they found her, they grabbed her, kicking and screaming threw her in the car 00:04:20.540 --> 00:04:22.780 and she was driven somewhere 00:04:22.780 --> 00:04:26.360 by a helicopter.. she was driven to a helicopter somehow 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:30.300 ended up in France and from France she came to Dubai. 00:04:30.310 --> 00:04:33.890 She was drugged on the plane. 00:04:33.890 --> 00:04:36.820 It was a private jet, so nobody was checking anything. NOTE Paragraph 00:04:36.820 --> 00:04:38.720 She was drugged, brought back to Dubai 00:04:39.020 --> 00:04:41.720 and basically put in this building. 00:04:43.340 --> 00:04:47.020 It’s the building, it’s called ‘Kheima’, which means ‘Tent’ in Arabic. 00:04:47.020 --> 00:04:49.340 But it’s not a tent, it’s just called ‘The Tent’ 00:04:49.340 --> 00:04:50.260 and 00:04:50.820 --> 00:04:53.060 And it’s on.. it’s in Zabeel Palace 00:04:53.280 --> 00:04:56.780 the property of my step-mom Hind. 00:04:56.780 --> 00:04:59.240 And she was kept there and locked there. NOTE Paragraph 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:01.080 And during that time, 00:05:01.080 --> 00:05:05.480 we could send her some things like clothes or whatever. 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:09.120 So, we snuck in a telephone for her. 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:13.440 ‘We’ meaning me and my adopted sister Mona 00:05:13.440 --> 00:05:15.280 Mona ??Al Lamara?? 00:05:15.280 --> 00:05:18.520 We were in contact with her and 00:05:18.520 --> 00:05:21.220 we snuck in a telephone, so we could talk to her. 00:05:21.220 --> 00:05:23.180 So while she was inside, 00:05:23.180 --> 00:05:26.420 she contacted some journalists in the UK 00:05:26.420 --> 00:05:29.380 and they released the story to The Guardian. NOTE Paragraph 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. 00:05:33.880 --> 00:05:35.460 The stories.. 00:05:35.460 --> 00:05:38.460 Google ‘Shamsa Al Maktoum’ and it’s the first thing that come up. 00:05:38.460 --> 00:05:41.340 Her, her escape and all of that. 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 00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:47.420 somebody was helping her or whatever. 00:05:47.420 --> 00:05:52.640 So the police went and they took Mona from her University 00:05:52.640 --> 00:05:55.820 and they questioned and tortured her 00:05:55.820 --> 00:06:00.340 And my sister Maitha came to my room 00:06:00.340 --> 00:06:03.180 in the evening the same day, and she said NOTE Paragraph 00:06:03.180 --> 00:06:07.000 ‘Mona was taken by the police and they’re questioning her 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:08.860 and beating her up basically 00:06:08.860 --> 00:06:10.580 what do you know about Shamsa?’ NOTE Paragraph 00:06:10.580 --> 00:06:12.660 And Maitha was kind of acting like the interrogator. 00:06:12.660 --> 00:06:13.880 You know like.. 00:06:13.880 --> 00:06:16.700 I’m gonna interrogate you to get information from you. 00:06:16.700 --> 00:06:18.420 I said I don’t know anything. 00:06:18.420 --> 00:06:21.140 And.. so anyway 00:06:21.140 --> 00:06:26.420 I went and I told my other adopted sister Fatima 00:06:26.440 --> 00:06:28.280 Fatima ??Lamara?? 00:06:28.280 --> 00:06:32.560 Who by the way was kept in a cabin in our house. 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:33.400 She was kept.. 00:06:33.400 --> 00:06:35.520 It’s another story. 00:06:37.380 --> 00:06:42.400 She’s kept in a cabin on our property, but locked up. 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:46.360 Separated from the rest of the family because she’s naughty. 00:06:46.440 --> 00:06:47.820 Her naughty behavior. 00:06:47.840 --> 00:06:49.820 She's..She’s rebellious. 00:06:49.820 --> 00:06:53.220 So she’s basically kept in a cage in our house. 00:06:55.180 --> 00:07:00.260 And anyway.. I.. I wrote a note for her and 00:07:00.260 --> 00:07:03.860 I told our housemaid to give it to her 00:07:03.860 --> 00:07:05.920 to slide it under her door and she did. 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 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:10.420 and everything. 00:07:10.420 --> 00:07:15.580 And then Fatima just went crazy, she just like broke down the window.. she.. she.. 00:07:15.580 --> 00:07:16.580 and the door. 00:07:16.580 --> 00:07:20.069 She threw this.. the metal thing outside the window. 00:07:20.069 --> 00:07:21.180 She broke it. 00:07:21.180 --> 00:07:22.430 She got out. 00:07:22.430 --> 00:07:23.440 She took a knife. 00:07:23.440 --> 00:07:28.560 She was threatening Ali, who is a.. like he is a chef.. 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:30.920 but he is also like.. the brother-in-law 00:07:30.930 --> 00:07:33.000 of my father’s right-hand man. 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:35.790 So he was kind of like in charge of the staff or whatever. 00:07:35.790 --> 00:07:37.200 So she took a knife and she was threatening him like 00:07:37.200 --> 00:07:38.640 ʻI want to see Mona, I want to see Monaʼ 00:07:38.640 --> 00:07:40.300 So they took Fatima. 00:07:40.300 --> 00:07:41.930 They put her in prison and they tortured her also. 00:07:41.930 --> 00:07:44.000 And then they realized that she knew nothing. 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. 00:07:49.640 --> 00:07:54.500 Anyway what happened after that, yeah so that day I kind of lost everyone. 00:07:54.510 --> 00:07:59.460 All my friends, all my.. my sisters everything. 00:07:59.460 --> 00:08:00.580 I lost everyone that day. 00:08:00.580 --> 00:08:02.560 It was.. it was very hard day for me. 00:08:03.420 --> 00:08:06.740 And of course I lost my communication with Shamsa. NOTE Paragraph 00:08:07.580 --> 00:08:10.900 So approximately a year later 00:08:10.900 --> 00:08:16.080 as a 16 year old I decided that I’m gonna escape. 00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:19.120 Back then I didn’t have the Internet. 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:20.540 I didn’t have.. 00:08:20.540 --> 00:08:24.260 I was very.. it was 2002. 00:08:24.270 --> 00:08:27.490 Internet existed but I didn’t have it, they wouldn’t allow me to have Internet. 00:08:27.490 --> 00:08:28.490 I didn’t have Internet. 00:08:28.490 --> 00:08:29.490 I didn’t have phone. 00:08:29.490 --> 00:08:32.580 The only phone I had was given to me by my friend 00:08:32.580 --> 00:08:35.960 so it wasn’t approved by my family or anything. 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.320 So I decided I’m gonna escape. 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:41.840 I’m gonna go, I’m gonna leave UAE. 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:44.900 I’m gonna find a lawyer in another country. 00:08:44.900 --> 00:08:46.270 Like I’m gonna go to Oman. 00:08:46.270 --> 00:08:49.620 I’m gonna just go there and I’m gonna find a lawyer or something 00:08:49.700 --> 00:08:51.220 and I’m gonna help Shamsa. 00:08:51.230 --> 00:08:52.230 In the worst case scenario if they catch me, they’re gonna put me with her. 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 00:08:56.210 --> 00:08:58.850 that she has somebody with her and she’s not gonna do anything crazy. 00:08:58.850 --> 00:08:59.850 She’s not gonna hurt herself. 00:08:59.850 --> 00:09:01.500 She has her sister with her, so she’s not gonna do anything. 00:09:01.500 --> 00:09:02.500 You know.. 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. NOTE Paragraph 00:09:06.010 --> 00:09:08.520 So in 2002 I escaped. 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:12.000 And they caught me at the border. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.470 And yeah like.. 00:09:14.470 --> 00:09:17.750 I was very, very naive I thought you could just go. 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.. 00:09:21.400 --> 00:09:23.030 I didn’t realize what the border looks like. 00:09:23.030 --> 00:09:24.250 I’ve never been to a border in my life. 00:09:24.250 --> 00:09:26.180 I didn’t have Internet to research it. 00:09:26.180 --> 00:09:28.230 I didn’t have anyone to talk to, to give me advice. 00:09:28.230 --> 00:09:29.230 I couldn’t.. 00:09:29.230 --> 00:09:30.580 I was totally by myself. 00:09:30.580 --> 00:09:32.130 I had no one. 00:09:32.130 --> 00:09:37.520 Nobody even knew what.. like I mean.. people..my friends around me in school like 00:09:37.520 --> 00:09:40.340 they didn’t know what I was going through. 00:09:40.340 --> 00:09:42.840 I couldn’t talk to anybody about it. 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:51.430 So yeah.. and I wasn’t allowed out. 00:09:51.430 --> 00:09:54.540 I wasn’t allowed to go outside.. like I was going to school. 00:09:54.540 --> 00:09:57.680 I would sometimes go to the family’s stables to horse ride 00:09:57.680 --> 00:10:02.080 and apart from that I didn’t do anything else and then I went home. 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:04.260 So I did I didn’t have.. 00:10:04.500 --> 00:10:05.680 I was.. 00:10:05.680 --> 00:10:07.020 I didn’t know anything. NOTE Paragraph 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. 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 00:10:19.540 --> 00:10:26.040 under my father’s orders and then his all his CID guys, they.. 00:10:27.700 --> 00:10:30.740 yeah, they.. they put me in person and they tortured me. 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:40.360 Basically, one guy was holding me, while the other guy was beating me.. 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:43.360 and they did that repeatedly. 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.700 I think the first time they tortured me, I didn’t feel any pain 00:10:46.700 --> 00:10:47.920 because I was in so much shock. 00:10:47.920 --> 00:10:48.780 I didn’t.. 00:10:48.780 --> 00:10:51.300 It was like somebody was hitting me through a pillow or something. 00:10:51.300 --> 00:10:54.450 I could see what they were doing, but I just.. 00:10:54.450 --> 00:10:57.270 I was like, are they just destroying my body? 00:10:57.270 --> 00:10:58.720 What’s going on? 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 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.. 00:11:09.780 --> 00:11:10.660 I didn’t.. 00:11:10.660 --> 00:11:14.060 I didn’t feel the pain and it was like a half hour torture session. 00:11:14.070 --> 00:11:16.360 And then the next times I was tortured, it was 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:22.520 for five hours and yeah I was just pulled from the bed 00:11:22.800 --> 00:11:28.380 driven to another location in the palace 00:11:28.380 --> 00:11:29.900 in the same building, 00:11:29.900 --> 00:11:33.580 The Kheima, the tent, which is not a tent. 00:11:33.590 --> 00:11:36.600 And yeah, they tortured me. 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:40.040 I knew how long it was, because I had a watch 00:11:40.040 --> 00:11:45.230 and they told me that your father told us 00:11:45.230 --> 00:11:47.250 to beat you until we kill you. 00:11:47.250 --> 00:11:51.390 That’s his orders, your father’s orders. 00:11:51.390 --> 00:11:56.040 Your father, the Ruler of Dubai, that’s what he said. NOTE Paragraph 00:11:56.040 --> 00:12:00.240 So all of this public image that he’s trying to portray human rights 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:02.000 Its bullshit. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.400 He’s the most evil person I’ve ever met in my life. 00:12:05.400 --> 00:12:06.820 He’s pure evil. 00:12:06.820 --> 00:12:09.040 There’s nothing good in him. 00:12:09.040 --> 00:12:11.580 He’s responsible for so many people’s deaths 00:12:11.580 --> 00:12:14.880 and ruining so many people’s lives. 00:12:20.680 --> 00:12:22.220 He doesn’t care about anyone. 00:12:22.220 --> 00:12:24.960 He only cares about his image, his reputation, 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:29.500 and he will gladly kill somebody, 00:12:29.500 --> 00:12:31.060 but he doesn’t do it himself. 00:12:31.060 --> 00:12:36.970 He just.. he.. he doesn’t do the dirty work himself. 00:12:36.970 --> 00:12:39.340 He’ll just get other people to do it. 00:12:39.340 --> 00:12:41.440 He doesn’t care. 00:12:43.300 --> 00:12:47.380 After my uncle died, he killed one of his wives 00:12:47.380 --> 00:12:49.070 he killed.. he killed her 00:12:49.070 --> 00:12:51.820 everyone knows about it, the Moroccan one. 00:12:51.820 --> 00:12:54.240 Because she was too.. 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.240 her behavior was too outrageous. 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:57.240 She was too.. 00:12:57.240 --> 00:12:58.240 I think..I think she just talked too much 00:12:58.240 --> 00:12:59.650 and he felt threatened by her. 00:12:59.650 --> 00:13:01.650 So he just killed her. 00:13:01.650 --> 00:13:03.900 Of course, he couldn’t do that when my uncle was alive, 00:13:03.900 --> 00:13:06.339 but he could do that after my uncle died. 00:13:06.340 --> 00:13:12.160 Everybody knows what kind of person he is. NOTE Paragraph 00:13:12.160 --> 00:13:15.220 So in total I was imprisoned for three years and four months. 00:13:15.220 --> 00:13:20.950 I went in June 2002 and I came out October 2005. 00:13:20.950 --> 00:13:23.320 I don’t know.. do the math. 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:28.600 But in 2003 for a week I came out of prison. 00:13:28.610 --> 00:13:30.760 They put me back home, 00:13:30.760 --> 00:13:32.560 home, it’s not a home. 00:13:32.560 --> 00:13:34.840 It’s my house, my mom’s house. 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:37.900 They put me back there for a week 00:13:37.900 --> 00:13:41.060 and it was surreal. 00:13:42.580 --> 00:13:45.280 When I went home to see my mom 00:13:45.280 --> 00:13:48.640 I expected some sympathy? 00:13:48.640 --> 00:13:50.100 Maybe? 00:13:50.100 --> 00:13:54.720 Since prison was not a normal prison experience 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:59.380 it was constant torture, constant torture. 00:13:59.380 --> 00:14:01.540 Even when they weren’t physically beating me up 00:14:01.540 --> 00:14:02.800 they would torture me. 00:14:02.800 --> 00:14:05.280 They would switch off all the lights. 00:14:05.280 --> 00:14:08.400 I was in solitary confinement by myself totally 00:14:08.400 --> 00:14:09.720 and there’s no windows, there’s no light, 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:11.880 so when they switched off the light, it was pitch black. 00:14:11.880 --> 00:14:14.440 They could switch it off for days, so I didn’t know 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:17.040 when one day ended then the next began 00:14:17.040 --> 00:14:18.800 and then they would.. 00:14:18.800 --> 00:14:21.420 they would make sounds to harass me and 00:14:21.420 --> 00:14:22.720 then they would come in the middle of the night 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:24.600 pull me out of bed to beat me 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.420 and it wasn’t.. 00:14:28.420 --> 00:14:31.380 it wasn’t a normal prison experience by any means. 00:14:31.380 --> 00:14:32.730 It was just torture. 00:14:32.730 --> 00:14:33.899 And they didn’t give me anything. 00:14:33.899 --> 00:14:36.160 I didn’t have a change of clothes. 00:14:36.160 --> 00:14:39.380 So I wore the same clothes and I would try to stay as clean as possible, 00:14:39.380 --> 00:14:41.980 but you know after the torture sessions I couldn’t even walk. 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. 00:14:46.060 --> 00:14:47.490 I would just crawl on my hands and knees. 00:14:47.490 --> 00:14:49.220 There was no medical help at all. 00:14:49.220 --> 00:14:50.220 They didn’t care. 00:14:50.220 --> 00:14:51.980 They wanted me dead anyway. 00:14:51.980 --> 00:14:55.860 And yeah, so I didn’t have anything. 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 00:15:00.580 --> 00:15:03.131 and it was disgusting, smelled so bad. 00:15:03.131 --> 00:15:07.010 I had a thin blanket also was so disgusting. 00:15:07.010 --> 00:15:09.190 And I had the clothes I was wearing. 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, 00:15:12.970 --> 00:15:13.970 you know. 00:15:13.970 --> 00:15:16.130 So I didn’t.. 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, 00:15:20.570 --> 00:15:24.170 clothes washing.. like Tide, you know, the clothes washing powder. 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. 00:15:30.060 --> 00:15:31.060 It was really disgusting. NOTE Paragraph 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.. 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. 00:15:44.060 --> 00:15:47.460 So I would shower like five times a day because I could. 00:15:47.460 --> 00:15:48.590 There was warm water. 00:15:48.590 --> 00:15:49.790 There was.. there was soap. 00:15:49.790 --> 00:15:50.810 There was a towel. 00:15:50.810 --> 00:15:51.810 There was clothes. 00:15:51.810 --> 00:15:52.810 I couldn’t believe it. 00:15:52.810 --> 00:15:53.810 There’s toothbrush. 00:15:53.810 --> 00:15:55.580 There was food like.. like proper food, 00:15:55.580 --> 00:15:57.160 not food in like little container 00:15:57.160 --> 00:15:58.840 meat and rice, meat and rice. 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:01.200 It wasn’t like these little container boxes you know. 00:16:01.210 --> 00:16:02.270 It was food that I can.. 00:16:02.270 --> 00:16:05.340 I can eat fresh food. 00:16:05.340 --> 00:16:08.110 I was very, very anemic when I came out. 00:16:08.110 --> 00:16:09.800 I had lost so much weight. 00:16:09.800 --> 00:16:14.061 All of my clothes were hanging off me and I couldn’t.. 00:16:14.061 --> 00:16:18.339 I needed to get new clothes. 00:16:18.339 --> 00:16:19.860 And everything was just a shock to me. 00:16:19.860 --> 00:16:23.520 So I remember, very weird, but 00:16:23.520 --> 00:16:26.060 I remember when I came out to the prison for the first time 00:16:26.060 --> 00:16:30.360 even in the car, I remember the car felt like it was going so fast because 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:34.459 I had not moved for one year and one month. 00:16:34.459 --> 00:16:36.980 So the car felt like I was in a roller-coaster. 00:16:36.980 --> 00:16:41.000 I was like wow, this is just going so fast. 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:44.280 And when I went home having all these people talking normally to me. 00:16:44.280 --> 00:16:46.040 Normal? Normal after what I’ve been through? 00:16:46.040 --> 00:16:49.080 I don’t know what normal is anymore you know, like nothing is normal. 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:54.580 Every time..I mean even now.. 00:16:54.580 --> 00:16:58.900 I am.. if I hear a noise I just wake up and 00:16:58.900 --> 00:17:01.760 I remember for a few years after I came out of prison 00:17:01.760 --> 00:17:04.380 whenever I could hear a noise outside the door 00:17:04.380 --> 00:17:06.480 I would just jump up out of bed, 00:17:06.489 --> 00:17:08.128 you know, I would just jump. 00:17:08.128 --> 00:17:11.398 I wouldn’t..and I would stand on my feet because I’m ready you know.. 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:14.240 I’m ready for anything. 00:17:15.180 --> 00:17:16.579 Yeah. 00:17:18.020 --> 00:17:25.079 So yeah.. that wasn’t a good time. NOTE Paragraph 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:30.300 So after a week of being at the house back with my mom, my sister 00:17:30.300 --> 00:17:33.630 and she didn’t show me compassion at all. 00:17:33.630 --> 00:17:35.540 Actually, what she said to me was 00:17:35.540 --> 00:17:37.950 ʻYou think your prison experience was bad?ʼ 00:17:37.950 --> 00:17:40.700 ʻThere’s others that’s so much more worse than thatʼ 00:17:40.700 --> 00:17:44.340 and when that happened I felt 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.360 really, really disappointed and sad. 00:17:48.360 --> 00:17:50.920 I really expected some compassion from her like any.. 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:52.760 as any kind of mother 00:17:52.760 --> 00:17:56.740 but there was no compassion. 00:17:57.980 --> 00:18:01.300 I also didn’t get any compassion from my sister, Maitha. 00:18:01.300 --> 00:18:04.640 She didn’t, but that’s okay...you know 00:18:06.800 --> 00:18:09.240 They could have helped me if they wanted to.. 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:10.440 but they didn’t.. 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. 00:18:17.970 --> 00:18:20.320 They could've visited me if they wanted to. 00:18:20.320 --> 00:18:22.379 They could've fought for me a little bit more. 00:18:22.380 --> 00:18:25.080 They could've had some compassion, but they kind of looked at me like 00:18:25.080 --> 00:18:26.440 ‘Oh you did this to yourself’ 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:28.000 No I didn’t. 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:29.659 I didn’t tell Shamsa to run away from England. 00:18:29.659 --> 00:18:31.350 I didn’t tell her to keep calling Leila. 00:18:31.350 --> 00:18:32.519 I didn’t tell her to get caught. 00:18:32.520 --> 00:18:33.420 I didn’t.. 00:18:33.420 --> 00:18:34.580 I didn’t do this to myself. 00:18:34.800 --> 00:18:35.980 My only thing was.. 00:18:36.040 --> 00:18:39.400 I was trying to defend my sister and trying to help her 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:41.480 and that’s what happened to me NOTE Paragraph 00:18:41.600 --> 00:18:44.240 So back to me being at the house. 00:18:44.259 --> 00:18:46.080 So I only stayed in the house for one week 00:18:46.080 --> 00:18:49.500 because after one week I had somewhat of a breakdown 00:18:50.020 --> 00:18:53.000 I don’t remember how exactly the fight started, 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:55.700 but I just kept screaming that I wanted to 00:18:55.710 --> 00:18:58.790 go see Shamsa and I couldn’t stop screaming. 00:18:58.790 --> 00:19:00.520 It was like.. 00:19:03.100 --> 00:19:04.320 I can’t explain it. 00:19:04.320 --> 00:19:06.920 I literally just kept screaming and screaming that 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:07.899 ‘I want to see Shamsa, I want to see Shamsa’ 00:19:07.900 --> 00:19:08.960 ‘I want to see Shamsa’ 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:11.880 and that ended up like I was physically trying to fight people. 00:19:11.889 --> 00:19:14.970 So they were holding me and I don’t remember who they called. 00:19:14.970 --> 00:19:20.090 They called the police, but at some point there was some men holding me again. 00:19:20.090 --> 00:19:22.559 And then there was a Doctor. 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, 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:28.220 I don’t remember. 00:19:28.220 --> 00:19:31.420 I think it was a car because I was just screaming. 00:19:31.429 --> 00:19:32.429 I couldn’t remember. 00:19:32.429 --> 00:19:33.429 They tried to tranquilize me. 00:19:33.429 --> 00:19:34.429 It didn’t work the first time. 00:19:34.429 --> 00:19:35.429 They put me in the hospital. 00:19:35.429 --> 00:19:39.480 I remember them putting.. sticking things on me, tranquilizing me again. 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 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 00:19:51.580 --> 00:19:56.159 then waking up like I lost some time then I lost a few days. 00:19:56.159 --> 00:19:59.799 I had no voice because I lost all my voice from all the screaming. 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:04.609 So yeah.. and then it took me a while to.. 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. NOTE Paragraph 00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:14.180 And then yeah.. then I spent one week in the hospital 00:20:15.620 --> 00:20:18.880 and.. with no voice and the nurses 00:20:18.889 --> 00:20:21.820 there were very, very, very good. 00:20:21.820 --> 00:20:26.320 And they were trying to make it as normal as possible for me 00:20:26.320 --> 00:20:31.100 like not, not to treat me like a mental patient you know.. 00:20:31.100 --> 00:20:32.299 because I’m not a mental patient. 00:20:32.299 --> 00:20:36.570 I told them what I went through with my very weak whisper, I could.. 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 00:20:44.760 --> 00:20:48.980 they tried to make me feel normal. 00:20:48.980 --> 00:20:53.860 And anyway so after one week in the house and then one week in the hospital, 00:20:53.860 --> 00:20:59.360 they put me back in prison again. NOTE Paragraph 00:20:59.360 --> 00:21:03.460 So in total I spent three years and four months in prison. 00:21:03.560 --> 00:21:08.500 And I didn’t know how long I’ll be in there for. 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. 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:20.820 And yeah, they didn’t manage to kill me. 00:21:20.840 --> 00:21:24.340 They wanted to but they didn't manage to. NOTE Paragraph 00:21:24.340 --> 00:21:31.440 So when I got out, the second time when I got out of prison, I.. 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:34.779 I of course I.. 00:21:34.779 --> 00:21:36.869 I just.. 00:21:36.869 --> 00:21:38.019 I hated everyone. 00:21:38.019 --> 00:21:39.980 I didn’t trust any people at all.. 00:21:39.980 --> 00:21:41.764 like for me all people were bad, 00:21:41.764 --> 00:21:43.640 all people were not to be trusted, 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:45.360 all people they were just against you, 00:21:45.360 --> 00:21:47.700 you know, that’s how I felt. 00:21:47.700 --> 00:21:50.460 So I spent a lot of time with animals 00:21:50.460 --> 00:21:54.100 with the horses, with the dogs, with cats, with birds 00:21:54.100 --> 00:21:56.019 with just different kinds of animals. 00:21:56.019 --> 00:21:58.300 I would spend my days with animals 00:21:58.300 --> 00:22:02.100 and then I would go to my room and watch movies or something, 00:22:02.100 --> 00:22:04.520 but I wouldn’t interact with people. 00:22:04.520 --> 00:22:06.780 I didn’t have anyone I trusted. 00:22:09.180 --> 00:22:17.780 And then I.. yeah, so it was.. it.. it took me.. 00:22:17.780 --> 00:22:18.700 I don’t know.. 00:22:18.700 --> 00:22:22.620 I don’t know how many years coming out of prison to fully 00:22:22.620 --> 00:22:26.140 fully recover from that experience. 00:22:30.620 --> 00:22:31.440 I don’t know. 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:33.179 I don’t know when started to be more normal. 00:22:33.179 --> 00:22:34.580 I don’t know if I’m normal now. 00:22:34.580 --> 00:22:36.360 I mean it’s something that 00:22:36.360 --> 00:22:37.860 that really changes you, you know, 00:22:37.860 --> 00:22:41.160 makes you lose trust in people. NOTE Paragraph 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:45.280 The summer of 2017 is when a lot of things changed, 00:22:45.280 --> 00:22:48.000 that kind of pushed me to.. 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. 00:22:55.220 --> 00:23:00.739 I realized you know this took me almost ten years to realize 00:23:00.739 --> 00:23:04.899 that me being here is not helping her at all. 00:23:04.899 --> 00:23:05.929 I can’t help her here. 00:23:05.929 --> 00:23:06.929 I need to leave. 00:23:06.929 --> 00:23:09.619 And that’s the only way I can help her. 00:23:09.619 --> 00:23:10.879 That ’s only I can help myself. 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:11.600 I can help her. 00:23:11.600 --> 00:23:14.760 I can help a lot of people, just to leave, being here.. 00:23:14.760 --> 00:23:17.680 I cannot help her at all. 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:22.200 So.. and also in 2017, 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:25.560 I lost a good friend in the summer 00:23:25.560 --> 00:23:31.009 and it made me see how life is so.. so short. 00:23:31.009 --> 00:23:32.990 You know. There’s no guarantee. 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 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:39.970 or somebody to be ready. 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. 00:23:43.590 --> 00:23:48.280 Shamsa will be fine without you and once you’re gone you can help her. NOTE Paragraph 00:23:48.280 --> 00:23:51.980 So I need to make this video. 00:23:51.980 --> 00:23:55.340 In case I don’t make it. 00:23:55.340 --> 00:24:03.260 It’s not gonna be in vain, somebody will have some footage. 00:24:03.260 --> 00:24:04.440 I have to.. 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:07.740 I have to remember to say everything because this could be last video I make. 00:24:07.740 --> 00:24:10.139 I don’t know what else to say. 00:24:10.140 --> 00:24:13.429 I don’t know what else to say. 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 00:24:21.700 --> 00:24:24.260 or something for sure. 00:24:26.420 --> 00:24:28.760 I don’t know what else to says about me. 00:24:28.860 --> 00:24:32.280 I’ll just say more information about me. NOTE Paragraph 00:24:32.289 --> 00:24:35.480 I went to Dubai English Speaking School when I was a kid 00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:38.480 and then I went to International School of Choueifat 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:41.920 and then for one year I went to the Latifa School for Girls. 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.739 And then yeah when I got out of prison, I was horse riding, inside Zabeel stables. 00:24:45.739 --> 00:24:51.460 And then I was scuba diving in Fujairah and then I started skydiving at Skydive Dubai. 00:24:51.460 --> 00:24:56.570 So there’s a lot of people who can.. who know me. 00:24:56.570 --> 00:24:58.260 They know my face. They know how I talk. 00:24:58.260 --> 00:24:59.040 They know me. 00:24:59.260 --> 00:25:02.260 So even if they try to discredit me, I hope 00:25:02.260 --> 00:25:04.679 some of my friends along the way would say 00:25:04.679 --> 00:25:07.760 ʻI know the Latifa and that’s really herʼ and you know 00:25:07.760 --> 00:25:11.169 Anyway I look like my sister Maitha. 00:25:11.169 --> 00:25:15.049 I look like my brother Majid and they’re both famous figures. 00:25:15.049 --> 00:25:20.040 So even if they try to discredit me, I look like my siblings. 00:25:20.040 --> 00:25:21.480 So.. 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, 00:25:27.169 --> 00:25:28.350 which by the way.. 00:25:28.350 --> 00:25:32.249 I don’t have possession of my passport, they won’t give me my passport. 00:25:32.249 --> 00:25:35.090 My UAE passport is never in my possession. 00:25:35.090 --> 00:25:38.060 I just got a photocopy of it when I did my.. 00:25:39.100 --> 00:25:40.440 oh my.. 00:25:41.080 --> 00:25:44.399 when I got when I did my GCSE exams 00:25:44.399 --> 00:25:47.639 after I left prison, I did some exams and they required passport copies. 00:25:47.639 --> 00:25:50.720 I took a picture of my passport then 00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:56.000 and also when I did my tandem rating for skydiving, 00:25:57.860 --> 00:26:01.380 the FAI? I think that’s what it’s called.. they require some medical clearance 00:26:01.380 --> 00:26:03.580 and which requires a copy of your passport, 00:26:03.580 --> 00:26:05.460 so I managed to copy.. the copy of my passport. 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. NOTE Paragraph 00:26:10.060 --> 00:26:11.700 So I’m not allowed to drive. 00:26:11.710 --> 00:26:15.129 I’m not allowed to travel or leave Dubai at all. 00:26:15.129 --> 00:26:17.680 I can’t. I haven’t left the country since 2000. 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:23.440 I’ve been asking a lot just to go traveling to study to do anything normal. 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:25.859 They don’t let me. 00:26:25.859 --> 00:26:26.860 I have to.. 00:26:26.860 --> 00:26:28.669 I have a curfew when I go out and I come back home.. 00:26:28.669 --> 00:26:30.880 I have to be back at a certain time. 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:35.220 They.. my mom she always like she needs to know exactly where I am. 00:26:35.229 --> 00:26:39.929 The drivers report back to my father’s office where I go etcetera, etcetera. 00:26:39.929 --> 00:26:41.840 We have assigned drivers. 00:26:41.840 --> 00:26:43.739 We’re not allowed to get into anyone’s car. 00:26:43.739 --> 00:26:44.889 I have to go with the driver. 00:26:44.889 --> 00:26:47.470 The driver has to know exactly where I am. 00:26:47.470 --> 00:26:50.700 Yeah, so that’s my life basically. 00:26:50.700 --> 00:26:51.940 It’s very restricted. 00:26:51.940 --> 00:26:52.940 I can’t.. 00:26:52.940 --> 00:26:55.280 I can’t even go to another Emirate without permission. 00:26:55.280 --> 00:26:56.260 I can’t. 00:26:56.260 --> 00:26:58.780 So I have to be in Dubai. 00:27:01.160 --> 00:27:02.080 Yeah. NOTE Paragraph 00:27:02.120 --> 00:27:04.040 So, yeah, even if they try to discredit me, 00:27:04.040 --> 00:27:10.540 I have a lot of data that they can’t discredit me. 00:27:10.549 --> 00:27:17.840 Well, they will try and then they will be discredited. 00:27:17.840 --> 00:27:20.460 So, yeah, this is going to be my last video. 00:27:20.540 --> 00:27:21.640 I hope it isn’t.. 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:23.620 I hope I never use this video. 00:27:24.300 --> 00:27:30.740 I hope this video just gets deleted and we’re all okay 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:34.880 but this video needed to be made. 00:27:36.540 --> 00:27:39.080 I don’t know what else I need to say. 00:27:42.100 --> 00:27:45.760 So what I’m hoping for after I leave is 00:27:47.100 --> 00:27:47.860 that 00:27:49.420 --> 00:27:51.240 I get my passport 00:27:52.040 --> 00:27:54.760 and I have freedom of choice in my life 00:27:54.760 --> 00:27:58.600 and I can help Shamsa from wherever I am. 00:27:58.600 --> 00:28:02.340 I can say give her her passport. 00:28:02.340 --> 00:28:03.300 Let her travel. 00:28:03.300 --> 00:28:04.680 Let her see me. 00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:05.420 And 00:28:06.600 --> 00:28:10.200 I think that’s the only way to help anyone including myself. 00:28:14.580 --> 00:28:16.599 I don’t know what else to say. 00:28:16.600 --> 00:28:20.500 I can talk about a lot of things that I’ve seen in my life. 00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:31.840 When..when I was six months old, my father’s sister wanted me. 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:34.400 So she took me away from my mom. 00:28:36.580 --> 00:28:39.560 So I lived for the first ten years of my life in the palace 00:28:39.560 --> 00:28:42.000 believing that my aunt was in fact my mother 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:45.409 and I would visit my real mother only once a year. 00:28:45.409 --> 00:28:46.570 I would never sleep there. 00:28:46.570 --> 00:28:49.080 I’d just spend the day and go to the palace at night. 00:28:50.980 --> 00:28:54.080 And when my younger brother was three months old, 00:28:54.080 --> 00:28:57.500 my mom also gave him. 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, 00:29:02.940 --> 00:29:07.140 so she gave my brother to me, so that we’re both together. 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:10.940 So yeah for the first ten years of my life I was living a lie 00:29:10.940 --> 00:29:14.160 then I discovered who I was and then I went to live with my mom 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:15.419 and I was fighting to go live with my mom and 00:29:15.419 --> 00:29:19.759 Shamsa was fighting for us to go and live with her. 00:29:19.760 --> 00:29:22.880 So I always saw Shamsa as this person who rescued me. 00:29:24.120 --> 00:29:26.860 So I was trying really hard to rescue her, so.. 00:29:26.860 --> 00:29:30.320 But so far I haven’t been successful. NOTE Paragraph 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:36.660 I know what else they’ll probably do. 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 00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:45.580 to discredit me or something like that. 00:29:45.580 --> 00:29:47.620 For sure they will try to do that.. 00:29:47.620 --> 00:29:48.960 knowing them. 00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:50.099 Of course, she will. 00:29:50.099 --> 00:29:51.450 She has no freedom. 00:29:51.450 --> 00:29:52.840 She can’t do anything you know. 00:29:52.840 --> 00:29:56.760 She’s.. right now she’s.. 00:29:56.760 --> 00:29:58.460 she has a psychiatrist with her 00:29:58.460 --> 00:30:00.660 and she’s surrounded by nurses. 00:30:01.560 --> 00:30:03.760 They’re in her room when she sleeps. 00:30:03.760 --> 00:30:05.780 They take notes of when she wakes up, 00:30:05.780 --> 00:30:08.379 when she sleeps, when she eats, what she eats, 00:30:08.379 --> 00:30:10.140 what she says, the conversation she says, 00:30:10.140 --> 00:30:11.620 they watch her, take her pills, 00:30:11.620 --> 00:30:13.560 they make sure that she takes all of her pills, 00:30:14.360 --> 00:30:16.220 these..these drugs to control her mind, 00:30:16.280 --> 00:30:17.400 I don’t know what they are. 00:30:18.120 --> 00:30:20.920 And so her life is totally controlled. 00:30:20.929 --> 00:30:23.800 Oh yeah in the summer also what happened, which 00:30:23.800 --> 00:30:26.260 I should have said is, 00:30:28.660 --> 00:30:32.780 Shamsa was discovered with a few mobile phones. So.. 00:30:35.500 --> 00:30:38.320 my mom and my other sister they got paranoid 00:30:38.320 --> 00:30:41.160 that she was gonna try to contact the journalists in England again 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:43.900 to talk to them about her situation or whatever, 00:30:43.900 --> 00:30:47.399 try to..to tarnish my father’s reputation basically. 00:30:47.399 --> 00:30:48.889 They were scared of that. 00:30:48.889 --> 00:30:51.980 So that’s when her situation got more controlled. 00:30:51.980 --> 00:30:55.009 That’s when the psychiatrist was brought in to stay with her full-time. 00:30:55.009 --> 00:30:58.749 She’s already dealing with psychiatrist but never somebody who was staying with her 00:30:58.749 --> 00:31:00.740 like.. like as much as she is now. 00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:04.460 And full-time nurses with her all the time. 00:31:04.460 --> 00:31:08.280 Basically like walking around with a cage following her you know, 00:31:08.280 --> 00:31:10.280 so she has no.. no freedom. 00:31:10.280 --> 00:31:11.280 So basically yeah I think.. 00:31:11.280 --> 00:31:14.019 I think what they will do is they will try to use her to discredit me. 00:31:14.020 --> 00:31:15.240 That would be amazing 00:31:16.180 --> 00:31:17.760 because.. 00:31:18.520 --> 00:31:21.220 yeah they will..they will try to use her to discredit me. 00:31:21.220 --> 00:31:24.600 They will never be able to get me to discredit myself because 00:31:25.360 --> 00:31:27.000 you know.. 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:30.100 they’re not gonna take me back alive, 00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:33.820 so that’s not gonna happen. NOTE Paragraph 00:31:35.820 --> 00:31:37.720 I don’t know what else to say. 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. 00:31:45.900 --> 00:31:49.500 We're in 2018 now, it’s been.. it’s been really, really crazy. 00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:50.660 A lot of people.. 00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:54.540 a lot of people’s lives have been hurt, 00:31:54.540 --> 00:31:57.320 a lot of people tortured, 00:31:57.320 --> 00:31:59.560 a lot of people lost their lives, 00:31:59.560 --> 00:32:01.220 a lot of things happened... you know 00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:03.780 He.. He covers up a lot of murders. 00:32:03.780 --> 00:32:05.880 He doesn’t care, my father. 00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:12.420 He’s the worst criminal you can ever imagine in your life 00:32:12.420 --> 00:32:15.700 and he has this image of so modern 00:32:15.700 --> 00:32:18.719 and all this bullshit. 00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:21.040 I have thirty brothers and sisters. 00:32:21.040 --> 00:32:21.820 He doesn’t.. 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, 00:32:27.591 --> 00:32:29.539 that’s all.. all bullshit. 00:32:29.540 --> 00:32:30.640 He doesn’t. 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:32.360 It’s just PR. 00:32:34.060 --> 00:32:36.980 He has a son in Lebanon that he never sees. 00:32:36.990 --> 00:32:40.200 He saw.. he met him maybe once or twice and he gave him a handshake.. 00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:43.129 you know when his son came to Dubai. 00:32:43.129 --> 00:32:47.020 He’s.. he’s neglected and so many, so many of his kids. 00:32:47.020 --> 00:32:48.580 He’s not a.. He’s not a father. 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:51.180 He’s really, really disgusting, 00:32:51.180 --> 00:32:53.360 really disgusting human being. 00:32:59.820 --> 00:33:00.620 Yeah, 00:33:01.900 --> 00:33:06.560 the way he lives his life and the way he treats other people 00:33:09.540 --> 00:33:15.740 It's not what’s been portrayed by the media, his media. 00:33:15.760 --> 00:33:17.840 Remember in Dubai, the media is controlled 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.240 as is much of the Middle East. NOTE Paragraph 00:33:25.540 --> 00:33:27.220 I don’t know what else to say. 00:33:29.020 --> 00:33:31.800 I feel like if this thing kills me 00:33:31.800 --> 00:33:33.909 or if I don’t make it out alive at least there’s a video. 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. 00:33:42.500 --> 00:33:44.140 I don’t know what else to say. 00:33:45.260 --> 00:33:47.920 trying to think of anything, everything, 00:33:48.740 --> 00:33:52.540 what else can I say about my life. 00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:01.180 I don’t know what else to say. 00:34:02.700 --> 00:34:08.760 I really hope I don’t need this video. 00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:14.120 And I’m feeling I won’t need it. 00:34:14.129 --> 00:34:17.760 I’m feeling positive about the future 00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:22.679 and I’m feeling like it’s a start of an adventure. 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:29.539 It’s a start of.. of me claiming my life, my freedom, freedom of choice. 00:34:29.539 --> 00:34:33.219 I don’t expect it to be easy, nothing is easy, 00:34:33.219 --> 00:34:37.620 but I expect it to be the start of a new chapter in my life 00:34:38.060 --> 00:34:42.340 and one where I have some voice 00:34:42.340 --> 00:34:46.079 where I don’t have to be silenced 00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:48.980 and I can talk about myself, I can talk about Shamsa. 00:34:48.980 --> 00:34:51.920 I can talk about what happened with us. 00:34:56.460 --> 00:35:01.180 Yeah, I’m really looking forward to that. 00:35:04.300 --> 00:35:05.700 Yeah, I don’t know, 00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:12.800 I don’t know how..how I’ll feel just waking up in the morning 00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:13.800 and thinking.. 00:35:13.809 --> 00:35:15.230 I can do whatever I want today. 00:35:15.230 --> 00:35:16.900 I can go wherever I want. 00:35:16.900 --> 00:35:20.500 I have all the choices in the world like anyone does. 00:35:21.600 --> 00:35:24.079 That’ll be such a new different feeling. 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:26.640 That would be amazing. 00:35:26.640 --> 00:35:28.480 I’m really looking forward to that. 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:33.036 There’s only so much you can do when you’re trapped in a country 00:35:33.040 --> 00:35:34.640 and trapped by all these restrictions. 00:35:34.640 --> 00:35:37.119 There’s only so much a human being can do. 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. 00:35:43.770 --> 00:35:47.100 I’m looking forward to a lot of things. 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. NOTE Paragraph 00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:05.550 I have no reason to stay in Dubai at all. 00:36:05.550 --> 00:36:07.820 I have no reason to come back here. 00:36:07.820 --> 00:36:10.839 I have people I love, but they can come see me. 00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:15.620 You know the people in my family who I care about, my friends, 00:36:15.620 --> 00:36:18.040 they can come see me wherever I am. 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. 00:36:20.900 --> 00:36:21.600 I don’t have.. 00:36:22.980 --> 00:36:25.300 I don’t know where I’m gonna be based. 00:36:25.300 --> 00:36:28.360 I don’t know where.. where I can live. 00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:30.380 I don’t know anything. 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:31.860 I don’t know where I’m going. 00:36:31.860 --> 00:36:33.180 We don’t know. 00:36:33.180 --> 00:36:35.600 I know where I’m stopping. 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. 00:36:41.410 --> 00:36:44.309 It is kind of nice also. 00:36:44.309 --> 00:36:48.980 I have all the options then, hopefully. NOTE Paragraph 00:36:49.120 --> 00:36:55.500 Yeah.. did I forget to say anything? 00:36:56.560 --> 00:36:58.380 What do I talk about? 00:36:58.380 --> 00:36:59.680 Do I talk about all the murders? 00:36:59.680 --> 00:37:02.120 Do I talk about all the abuse I’ve seen? 00:37:02.160 --> 00:37:05.120 Do I talk about.. what? 00:37:09.300 --> 00:37:12.140 I don’t know what to talk about 00:37:12.140 --> 00:37:16.560 because that would be a very, very long story. 00:37:19.340 --> 00:37:22.900 I don’t know. 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:29.280 I should, shouldn’t I? 00:37:34.820 --> 00:37:38.720 He’s responsible for a lot of deaths. NOTE Paragraph 00:37:39.900 --> 00:37:44.200 He is a major major criminal, major criminal. 00:37:44.200 --> 00:37:46.220 There is no justice here. 00:37:46.220 --> 00:37:51.980 They don’t care, especially if you’re female, your life is so disposable. 00:37:51.980 --> 00:37:53.640 They don’t care. 00:37:58.200 --> 00:38:01.660 He’s even burned down houses to hide the evidence. 00:38:01.660 --> 00:38:03.560 He’s burned down houses. 00:38:05.300 --> 00:38:06.840 He’s crazy. 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. 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:18.220 He will. 00:38:18.220 --> 00:38:20.800 He will definitely face the consequences. 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. 00:38:25.220 --> 00:38:26.360 He doesn’t scare me. 00:38:26.360 --> 00:38:27.400 He’s pathetic 00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:30.980 Pathetic human being. 00:38:30.980 --> 00:38:33.536 And he’s gonna face the consequences of everything he’s done 00:38:33.536 --> 00:38:35.470 not just to me, but to everyone else. 00:38:35.470 --> 00:38:37.680 He will face the consequences. 00:38:38.120 --> 00:38:40.200 Yeah. NOTE Paragraph 00:38:43.200 --> 00:38:51.460 Okay, I think there’s nothing more in me to say now. 00:38:52.940 --> 00:38:55.080 Hopefully, I don’t need this video. 00:38:58.560 --> 00:39:00.420 Any final words.. 00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:05.140 Any final words.. NOTE Paragraph 00:39:09.700 --> 00:39:14.580 Thank you to all my friends and to the people who really care about me 00:39:14.580 --> 00:39:16.960 and to my.. to the family members who do care about me, 00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:18.060 you know who you are, 00:39:18.060 --> 00:39:20.960 not all of you care about me, but some of you do. 00:39:21.560 --> 00:39:23.040 Thank you to those people. 00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:26.680 And if I don’t make it out, 00:39:27.980 --> 00:39:32.180 I really hope there’s some positive change will happen from all of this. NOTE Paragraph 00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:34.960 Okay.