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The guardian appointed for her children said it "impacts crucially on the mother and her wellbeing. It is a very pernicious experience if the mother has been subjected to surveillance of the type that she understands that she has been".

Princess Haya's legal team told the court that "the mother has been living in fear of her life frankly, and in fear of the children's security since April of []".

The court also heard how Sheikh Mohammed had attempted to buy a property in Surrey, Parkwood Estate, so close to his ex-wife's home at Castlewood, that "if anyone chose to use it, it is in prime position for direct or electronic surveillance". Her legal team said "there is a powerful objective case as to why the mother should be genuinely in fear if the father has access to a property overbearing her own". Referring to the proposed property purchase, Princess Haya told the court: "It feels as if I am being stalked, that there is literally nowhere for me to go to be safe from the father , or those acting in his interests.

It is hugely oppressive. Sheikh Mohammed, a close ally of Britain's and a billionaire racehorse owner, was found by the High Court in March to have threatened and intimidated Princess Haya. The court also found proven allegations that he kidnapped and forcibly returned to Dubai two of his own daughters, Sheikha Latifa and Sheikha Shamsa.

This February, BBC Panorama obtained secretly filmed footage of Sheikha Latifa saying she was imprisoned by her father in a villa converted into a jail. She recounted how she had attempted to escape her family by boat in but was recaptured by armed men off the coast of India, tranquilised and forcibly returned to Dubai. The UN later demanded to see proof she was alive and well.

Photographs have since been posted on social media showing her accompanied by female friends in a Dubai mall, and holidaying in Madrid and Iceland. Human rights campaigners remain suspicious that she is still not at liberty or able to speak freely. A law firm saying it is acting on her behalf has asked the media to leave her alone. During the recent hearings in the High Court, Princess Haya's legal team said that previous abductions were made possible by hacking, which "enabled the identification of the whereabouts of Princess Latifa and she was then rendered back to Dubai".

Princess Haya, a daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan and half-sister of King Abdullah II, fled Dubai in for Britain along with her two children after learning that her husband had ordered the abduction of Sheikha Latifa and Sheikha Shamsa.

She has since said she is living in fear of her life after receiving threatening messages from agents of her former husband. Now her legal team is accusing agents of the Emirate of Dubai of acting on his behalf in hacking the phones of Princess Haya, her solicitors, Baroness Shackleton and Nick Manners, as well as her personal assistant and two members of her security staff. The hacking took place in July and August "at a time of significant events" in the court proceedings when hearings were taking place over the welfare of the children.

The judgment concluded that "the allegations of hacking came before the court at a time when it had already made very serious findings against the father". During the long-running custody case at the High Court, Sheikh Mohammed has tried on several occasions through appeals to keep details of the allegations against him out of the public eye.

But both in March and now, in October , they have been made public, although he did not seek to appeal the most recent order permitting publication of these judgments. Wednesday's ruling that, despite his denials, a sovereign ruler has interfered in the course of British justice by ordering the hacking of UK phones, including of a member of the House of Lords is both shocking, embarrassing and damaging to Sheikh Mohammed's international reputation.

That was the last time I saw Latifa. She was being dragged off the boat, kicking and screaming, yelling that she was seeking political asylum. They ignored her. The whole situation was so unreal. They threatened to shoot my brain out if I spoke. It was shocking. It was beyond my comprehension.

Along with Jaubert, Tiina was taken to a national security prison, where she was kept in solitary confinement for several weeks. There has never been any response to the video, except a short statement from her family, released in December Princess Latifa and best friend Tiina Jauhiainen during their escape from Dubai in Sheikh Mohammed, 70, is largely credited with turning Dubai into the global, glamorous city it is today.

Yet behind his public image as a progressive ruler of a forward-thinking country lies a more controversial side. Rape victims are also often ostracised for going public. The strict oppression of women in the UAE appears to extend to the royal family itself.

In some ways, the expectations of them as royals mean they have even more restricted lives than local UAE women — Latifa has alleged she had no freedom to travel, work, or even have relationships.

Some people say she had access to money and was able to do a lot of activities, like skydiving, which she loved. But that was just a distraction from her reality.

She called it a house, and hated it. She was treated like a minor, and felt like she was suffocating. Her mother was also very religious, so anything like dancing or music was haram [forbidden]. She was born in Finland, where her parents have a flower business, and went to university in London, before moving to Dubai in She first met Latifa in , after being hired as her capoeira a Brazilian martial art instructor.

The pair slowly became friends, learning skydiving together, with Latifa going on to become a qualified instructor, with more than jumps to her name. To work. To study. These are bite-size audio Hebrew classes that we think you'll really enjoy. This month, we're learning phrases on the topic of strength and power. Ready to get tough with us?

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