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British judiciary will consider divorce case against Dubai ruler on July 30

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The Family Division of the British High Court has set a date for a legal battle between Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and his wife Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, who fled the country, where the first session of the case on July 30.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum will face Princess Haya, the famous Olympian who enjoys cordial relations with Queen Elizabeth II and daughter of the late King of Jordan.

The session is expected to focus on who will have custody of their children after Princess Haya has left Dubai for Britain, where she owns a walled house in Buckingham Palace Gardens on a private street lined with some of the most expensive houses and cars in the world.

Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, 45, filed a lawsuit in the Family Division of the British High Court demanding the divorce of her husband, the UAE Vice President and Prime Minister, as well as the custody of her two children, Jalila, 11, and Zayed, 7.

Radha Sterling, CEO of campaign group Detained in Duba said yesterday: “The UAE is a male-dominated society, and Princess Haya’s husband, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, wields absolute power over Dubai.”

The UAE is trying to present a good image of itself to the Western world by assigning the faces of women ministers, counselors and leaders, but the reality is different for Emirati women who are subject to the laws of men’s jurisdiction and to allow them to exercise physical and verbal violence against them.

Princess Haya, sister of Jordan’s King Abdullah Bin Al Hussein who hasn’t appeared in public since May 20, and her social media accounts have not seen any interaction since last February. Her last tweet was of a picture of her father, King Hussein.

The Daily Mail said earlier that the German authorities had rejected a request from Mohammed bin Rashid to return his wife and two children to Dubai, while the UAE authorities did not release any comments deny or confirm the escape of Princess Haya.

His daughter, Sheikha Shamsa, tried to escape from a property owned by her father in Britain in 2000, but her family’s security agents tracked her and found her place in Cambridge and then returned her to Dubai, according to what her sister “Sheikha Latifa” said later.

She tried to escape several times from her palace in Dubai. She once tried to flee to Oman but was arrested and imprisoned for three years, according to previous press reports.

Latifa managed to escape again in February 2018, with the help of a former French spy and Finnish trainer Tina Johannin, who hid her on a yacht headed for the Indian Ocean but disappeared with her crew in March of the same year. A joint military force from the UAE India detained her as she approached the Indian state of Goa and returned her to Dubai.

A video was published a few days after the discovery of the place of Sheikha Latifa, included a letter recorded in anticipation of any harm, in which she said that she is ill-treated in her country, and that she is imprisoned in her palace, and accused her father of abusing her and her sister Shamsah, and that if the video was published they will be in danger.

The UAE authorities published a series of photographs of Sheikha Latifa with former Irish Prime Minister Mary Robinson in December 2018, inside her home, in a sign that the princess is alive but still banned from leaving the country.