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Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum: Who is Dubai's ruler? - Published Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the 71-year-old billionaire ruler of Dubai and vice-president of the United Arab Emirates. In the Middle East, he is renowned for overseeing the transformation of Dubai into a top business and tourism destination. Elsewhere, he is perhaps best known for his connection to horseracing, as the owner of the Godolphin stables. One of his daughters, Princess Latifa, has now made headlines after secret videos recorded by her in captivity have been obtained and released by the BBC's Panorama. Latifa made the videos while being held under her father's orders in Dubai in a barred villa. Sheikh Mohammed was born in 1949 at his family home in Shindagha, near Dubai Creek. He was the third of the four sons of Sheikh Rashid Al Maktoum, who ruled Dubai for 32 years from 1958. After finishing secondary school in 1965, Sheikh Mohammed moved to the UK to study English at a language school in Cambridge. The young sheikh later attended a six-month training court at the British Army's Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot, Hampshire. In 1968, following his return to Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed accompanied his father to a meeting with the then ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan, at which they agreed to a union that would lead to the establishment of a federation of emirates. After the UAE gained independence from the UK in 1971, Sheikh Mohammed was named defence minster - a position he still holds. Sheikh Mohammed also became heavily involved in his father's plan to compensate for Dubai's dwindling oil reserves by diversifying its economy and becoming an international trade and financial centre, as well as a tourist destination. Today, more than 95% of the emirate's gross domestic product is non-oil-based, with tourism contributing 20%. Dubai's population has also grown from about 40,000 in the 1960s to 3.3 million, including almost 3.1 million non-Emiratis, many of whom live in the hundreds of high-rise buildings filling its skyline. In 1990, Sheikh Rashid died after a long illness resulting from a stroke. He was succeeded by Mohammed's eldest brother, Maktoum. Five years later, Sheikh Maktoum named Mohammed crown prince of Dubai. He also handed over much of the day-to-day running of the emirate to him. Sheikh Mohammed became ruler of Dubai and vice-president and prime minister of the UAE in 2006, after his brother died aged 62 during a visit to Australia. Under his leadership, Dubai's development continued apace. In 2008, the emirate unveiled the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa; Dubai Mall, then world's largest shopping centre by total land area; and the Dubai Metro. Such ambitious projects were, however, reliant on borrowing billions of dollars. The global financial crisis caused Dubai's real estate market to crash and in 2009 state-linked companies came close to defaulting on their debts. Abu Dhabi stepped in and loaned the Dubai government the money it desperately needed. Dubai's construction boom also relied on low-paid migrant construction workers, many of whom complained that they suffered exploitation. Sheikh Mohammed has also become famous for his involvement in horseracing, and is credited with transforming it into a global industry. He rode horses on beaches in Dubai as a child and was introduced to the sport in 1967 in the UK. Ten years later, he enjoyed his first success as an owner. The sheikh subsequently set up the world's largest horseracing team, Godolphin, as well as the successful stallion breeding operation, Darley. Godolphin - which has facilities in the UAE, England, the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Japan and the US - has won 6,000 races across the world since 1992, including 315 prestigious Group One races. Sheikh Mohammed frequently attends major horseracing events such as Royal Ascot, where he has been pictured with Queen Elizabeth II. The sheikh shared a love of horses with his sixth and "junior" wife, Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, the daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan and half-sister of King Abdullah II. The pair married in Amman in 2004 and had two children, Al Jalila and Zayed. Princess Haya painted a picture of a perfect family life in interviews, but cracks began to appear in 2018 when Princess Latifa, one of Sheikh Mohammed's adult daughters with another wife, tried to flee the UAE with the help of a former French spy and a Finnish fitness instructor. A boat carrying them was intercepted at sea off the coast of India and Latifa was returned to Dubai. In a video filmed beforehand, she alleged that she had been imprisoned for more than three years and subjected to physical abuse after another unsuccessful escape attempt in 2002. Now, new videos made by Latifa have been released after being obtained by the BBC's investigative current affairs programme, Panorama. The footage was recorded over several months by Latifa after she had been taken back to Dubai following her failed escape in 2018. They were made using a phone that was secretly given to her by friends who are campaigning for her freedom. In the videos, she describes how she fought back against the soldiers during her capture, before being tranquillised and flown back to Dubai. She said she was being held alone without access to medical or legal help in a villa with windows and doors barred shut, and guarded by police. The secret messages have since stopped, leading her friends to urge the UN to step in. After the 2018 escape attempt, Princess Haya had backed claims by the Dubai government that Latifa had been "vulnerable to exploitation" and was "now safe". But after fleeing Dubai for the UK via Germany along with their children in April 2019, sources alleged that she had become aware of new information relating to Latifa. Sheikh Mohammed did not comment on the breakdown of his marriage, but he did write an angry poem accusing an unnamed woman of "treachery and betrayal" and posted it on Instagram. In July 2019, Haya applied for a forced marriage protection order and a non-molestation order at the UK High Court in London - as well as wardship of their children. Sheikh Mohammed meanwhile applied for the children's return to Dubai. Eight months later, the High Court issued a series of fact-finding judgements that said Sheikh Mohammed had ordered and orchestrated the forcible return of Latifa in 2002 and 2018, as well as the unlawful abduction of her elder sister Princess Shamsa in 2000. Shamsa fled the family's UK estate in Surrey that year but was later recaptured in Cambridgeshire by agents of the sheikh and forcibly returned to Dubai. A request by Cambridgeshire Police to visit Dubai to investigate was refused. The court found that Sheikh Mohammed "continues to maintain a regime whereby both these two young women are deprived of their liberty". It also said Haya, who'd had an adulterous affair with a bodyguard, was now living in fear of her life after receiving numerous threats both in Dubai and in London. These included a pistol placed on her pillow. Sheikh Mohammed rejected the judgements and findings, and appealed unsuccessfully to keep them out of the public domain. He said the appeal was "made to protect the best interests and welfare of the children" and that the "outcome does not protect my children from media attention in the way that other children in family proceedings in the UK are protected". "As a head of government, I was not able to participate in the court's fact-finding process. This has resulted in the release of a 'fact-finding' judgment which inevitably only tells one side of the story," he added.
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दुबईका शेखले छोरीको अपहरण र पत्नीलाई धम्की दिएको ब्रिटिश अदालतको ठहर - फ्रयाङ्क गार्डनर - बीबीसी सुरक्षा संवाददाता अपहरण, जबरजस्ती फिर्ता लैजाने, प्रताडना तथा तर्साउने र धम्क्याउने कार्यलगायत दुबईका अरबपति शासक शेख मोहम्मद बिन रशिद अल-मक्तुमविरुद्ध उनकी पूर्वपत्नी राजकुमारी हाया बिन्त अल-हुसेनले लगाएका आरोपहरू बिहीवार स्थापित तथ्य बनेका छन्। उक्त कुरा ब्रिटेनको उच्च न्यायालयले गरेका फैसलाहरूको एउटा श्रृङ्खला स्वरूप प्रकाशित भएको हो। आठ महिना अघि सुरु भएको उक्त मुद्दापश्चात् अदालतले राजकुमारी हायाका पक्षमा एउटा फ्याक्ट फाइन्डिङ जजमेन्ट (एफएफजे), तथ्यको खोजी गर्ने निर्णय, प्रकाशित गरेको हो। राजकुमारी हाया गत वर्ष दुबईबाट आफ्ना दुई बच्चाका साथ भागेकी थिइन्। उनले साथीहरूलाई आफ्नो ज्यान जाने डरले भागेको बताएकी थिइन्। शेख मोहम्मदले निर्णयलाई सार्वजनिक जानकारीभन्दा बाहिर राख्ने असफल प्रयास गरेका थिए। तर यो विषय सार्वजनिक हितको भएको भन्दै अदालतले उनको अपिल खारेज गरेको थियो। 'अदालतसमक्ष इमानदार नभएको' दुबईका शासकलाई "अदालतसमक्ष खुला तथा इमानदार नभएको" ठहर गरिएको थियो। ब्रिटिश अदालतको फैसला प्रकाशित भएपश्चात् जारी एक वक्तव्यमा, शेख मोहम्मदले भनेका छन्, "सरकार प्रमुखका रूपमा म अदालतको तथ्य खोज्ने प्रक्रियामा सहभागी हुन सक्षम थिइनँ र त्यसपछि 'तथ्य-खोजी' फैसाला जारी गरियो। त्यसले केवल एकपक्षीय कथा मात्र बताउँछ।" उनले उक्त मुद्दा निजी मामिला भएकोमा जोड दिएका थिए। "म भन्न चाहन्छु सञ्चारमाध्यमहरूले हाम्रा बच्चाहरूको गोपनीयताको सम्मान गरुन् र यूकेमा उनीहरूको जीवनमा दखल नदिउन्," उनले भनेका छन्। 'स्वतन्त्रताबाट बञ्चित युवा महिलाहरू' लामो समयसम्म धेरै साक्षीहरूको बयान सुनेपछि अदालतले शेख मोहम्मदलाई अर्की पत्नीतर्फका दुईजना छोरीहरूलाई अपहरण गरेको र जबर्जस्ती फिर्ता लगेको कसुरमा जिम्मेवार रहेको ठहर गरेको छ। अदालतले भनेको छ- - शेखा शमसाले सन् २००० मा सरेस्थित परिवारको ब्रिटेनमा रहेको घरबाट भागेकी थिइन्। तर पछि शेखका मानिसहरूले उनलाई क्याम्ब्रिजसायरबाट जबरजस्ती दुबई लगेका थिए र उनलाई कैदमा राखिएको बताइएको छ। क्याम्ब्रिसायर प्रहरीद्वारा यसबारे अनुसन्धान गर्न दुबई जान पाउनका लागि गरिएको अनुरोधलाई अस्वीकार गरियो। - शेखा लतीफाले सन् २००२ र २०१८ मा आफ्ना पिताका परिवारबाट भाग्ने दुईवटा असफल कोसिस गरेकी थिइन्। पहिलो पटक दुबईमा तीन वर्षसम्म जेलमा राखिएपछि दोस्रो पटक उनले भाग्ने प्रयास गरेकी थिइन्। दोस्रो पटक उनलाई भारतीय समुद्री तटबाट जबरजस्ती दुबई फर्काएर घरैमा नजरबन्दमा राखिएको बताइन्छ। न्यायाधीशले लतिफाले आफूलाई यातना हुने गरी शारीरिक दुर्व्यवहार गरिएको भनी एउटा सार्वजनिक भिडिओ मार्फत लगाएको आरोपलाई विश्वसनीय मानेका छन्। न्यायाधीशले गरेका ठहर अनुसार शेख मोहम्मद "ती दुवै युवा महिलाहरू तिनको स्वतन्त्रताबाट बञ्चित भैरहने व्यवस्थालाई निरन्तरता" दिन चाहन्छन्। राजकुमारी हायाको जन्म जोर्डनमा भएको थियो। उनले ब्रिटेनका निजी विद्यालयहरूमा अध्ययन गरेकी हुन्। उनी जोर्डनका वर्तमान शासक अब्दुल्लाह द्वितीयकी सौतेनी बहिनी हुन्। उनी ओलिम्पिक्समा घोडचढी खेलाडीका रूपमा सहभागी पनि भएकी थिइन्। शेख मोहम्मदसँग उनको सन् २००४ मा विवाह भएको थियो। उनी शेख मोहम्मदकी छैटौँ र कान्छी पत्नी हुन्। राजकुमारी हायाका ११ र सात वर्षका दुई सन्तान छन्। राजकुमारीको शरण सुरुमा उनलाई ती भागेका राजकुमारीहरूलाई जोगाउन स्वदेश फिर्ता ल्याइएको भन्ने कुरामा विश्वास लागेको थियो। उनीहरू परिवारसँग सुरक्षित रहेका छन् भन्ने उनी ठान्थिन्। तर सन् २०१९ को सुरुवातमा राजकुमारी हायालाई यस्ता कुरामा सन्देह पैदा भयो। र उनले आफ्ना चिन्ताहरू व्यक्त गर्न थालिन्। उनले आफ्ना ब्रिटिश अङ्गरक्षकसँग गैरवैवाहिक सम्बन्ध पनि बनाउन सुरु गरेकी थिइन्। शेख मोहम्मदका मानिसहरूले उनलाई तर्साउने र धम्क्याउने अभियान सुरु गरे। राजकुमारी हायाको सिरानीमुनि दुईपटक बन्दुक राखिएको पनि अदालतमा बताइएको थियो। उनलाई दुर्गम मरुभूमिस्थित एउटा जेलमा लैजाने धम्की दिँदै उनी बस्ने घर बाहिर एउटा हेलिकप्टर पनि ओरालिएको थियो। दुबईका शासकसँग आफ्नो विवाह बलपूर्वक भएको दाबीसहित दुबई छोडेर भागेकी राजकुमारी हायाले त्यसबाट आफ्नो रक्षा खोज्दै यूकेमा मुद्दा हालेकी थिइन्। उनले संयुक्त अरब इमिरेट्स (यूएई)मा आफूले छाडेका छोराछोरीको अभिभावकत्व लिन पाउनुपर्ने माग गरेकी थिइन्। उनले जबरजस्ती गरिएको विवाह र दुर्व्यवहारबाट बच्ने आदेश पनि माग गरेकी थिइन्। पैँतालीस वर्षीया हाया सुरुमा शरण खोज्न जर्मनी पुगेकी थिइन्।