i'm a hostage and
this villa has been converted into a
jail all the windows are borrowed shut i
can't open any
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uh i don't know when i'll be released
and what the conditions to be like when
i'm released
um every day i am worried about my
safety in my life
um don't really know if i'm going to
survive the situation
uh the police threatened me that i'll be
imprisoned my whole life
and i'll never see this one again
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so i'm not allowed to drive i'm not
allowed to
travel or leave dubai at all i can't i
haven't left the country since 2000
uh i've been asking a lot just to go
traveling to study to to do anything
normal
they don't let me that's my life
basically it's very restricted
i need to live
i didn't hesitate i would say yes of
course that would be
a great adventure
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on this small boat it was i don't know
how many commandos maybe
12 15 and the two emirati like
lieutenant sergeants i was fighting and
this guy came with a small pouch like a
camouflage pouch
and he took out the needle and he
injected me in my arm and i was
like fighting i was saying don't do that
don't do that don't do that
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he grabs me and he lifts me up
and i'm like kicking and fighting and
he's much bigger than me
so i see that his sleeve is rolled up
and his arm is exposed
so i said okay you have one shot so i
just
bite him as hard as i can and shake my
head
and he screamed
the same guy tranquilized me again they
put me on a stretcher
and as they were carrying me up the
steps of the private jet
is when i passed out like i lost
consciousness all i remember was the
rocking
and seeing the stairs and then i just
passed out
i've been here ever since i've been
by myself solitary confinement
no access to medical help
no child no charge
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nothing
she was lying on the floor and her hands
were tight behind her back
and she was simply repeating i'm seeking
for political asylum
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and she said to me it would be like a
test to see how you will react around
people after being in prison for so long
and if you're if you
act well you react well you're going to
be out in a few days
i began to explain that
latifah had quite a serious bipolar
problem
in a way that was very convincing we
don't want
latifa to go through any further trauma
i introduced mary never said that she
was a former un
head of human rights never if i knew
that
of course like i would have said
everything but
no she never told me that the topics
that we discussed during that lunch
where sports
veganism the environment do you regret
not asking her more directly about the
video or about
about her situation i thought about it
and i i suppose i'm not very familiar
with people who are bipolar
i i didn't know how to address somebody
who was bipolar about their
trauma etc i decided to give a pass on
that so
you know i wanted to talk to our doctors
but i really didn't actually want to
talk to her
and increase the trauma over a nice
lunch like we never discussed
me or never discussed my case i was
misled
initially by my good friend princess
haya
because she was misled it was all a
setup
it was like they tricked me
the major international news is that my
stepmother is
getting a divorce life of dubai's
billionaire ruler has reportedly fled to
london with her two children
she's currently in hiding in london
allegedly in fear for her life
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today we are here to celebrate all that
women are achieving
we are incredibly grateful to be joined
by his highness sheikh mohammed
your presence here means so much
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extraordinary and damning allegations of
abduction and intimidation
it was a big breakthrough for all of us
i thought
that would have been a great evidence
for the un
to to make a public statement to
to pressurize the uae more or
you know something that could have
quickly led to her release
but let's see if i was still held a
prisoner
i'm just getting so tired of everything
it's like a circus i don't want to be a
hostage in this
jail villa i just want to be free
i don't i don't know what they're
planning to do with me
i really don't know so the situation is
getting more desperate
every day and
i yeah i'm just really really tired of
this now
what if what if i don't get to speak to
her again
if we assume that she was caught with
the phone
her conditions now are probably a lot
worse
since a lot of time has passed we've
taken the decision
to to release some of this
evidence there's been some some
sleepless nights
thinking about this
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but it's it's
it's time to do something simple it's
like
am i free or am i not free i'm not free
so okay the world isn't
is gonna know that i'm not free i feel
that
she would want us to fight for her
anybody who cares gonna know that i'm
not free and
i'm not gonna go along with their
propaganda that's just how i am
you