Princess Latifa asked guards to shoot her rather than return her to Dubai during her doomed attempt to flee the royal family

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Rosie Perper
,INSIDER•October 2, 2019

Princess Latifa of Dubai, the daughter of Dubai emir Sheikh Mohammed, said that she "preferred to be shot than go back home" during her doomed attempt to flee the royal family, according to the friend who fled with her.

Latifa tried to escape Dubai in March 2018 with her friend Tiina Jauhiainen, a Finn living in Dubai, but was caught by armed Emirati officers and was forcibly returned home. She has not been seen in public from since.

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Jauhiainen said that Latifa had previously tried to escape Dubai unsuccessfully and as a result spent three and a half years in prison where she was "tortured."

Latifa's cousin, Marcus Essabri, previously spoke about the incident in July with CBS News' "60 Minutes." He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire that he isn't sure how she's being treated now.

"We've been trying to reach out, nobody is responding to us," he said.

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