How many abducted and imprisoned princesses would it take for British tourists to turn their backs on Dubai? Meanwhile, she was evidently happy to help the repressive UAE present itself, as Human Rights Watch has argued, “as an open and rights-respecting country”. And while the campaigner Ahmed Mansoor is still imprisoned for peaceful human rights activism? “I would like to see tourists boycott Dubai,” Latifa’s best friend, Tiina Jauhiainen, has said, given the absence of evidence that the princess is safe and well. “No one with a conscience can overlook the reality now,” she says, “the injustice, the human rights abuses and the exploitation.” Or does she over-estimate the British tourist?

Source: The Guardian February 28, 2021 07:52 UTC