![]() ![]() “The allegations made by recent press reports claiming that the UAE is amongst a number of countries accused of alleged surveillance targeting of journalists and individuals have no evidentiary basis and are categorically false,” a statement from the country’s foreign ministry said. But last week the United Arab Emirates, the federation of which Dubai is part, said claims that it had ordered any hacking were false. The campaigner has also reported the incident to Devon and Cornwall police, where he lives, and the force has begun investigating.ĭubai did not respond to a request for comment on the targeting of Haigh’s device. Haigh said he believed the attack amounted to “state-sponsored harassment” and called on the UK government to investigate “all use of Pegasus software on British soil”. Some of the films, which described her plight, were later released by the Free Latifa campaign to BBC Panorama in February, including one in which the princess says: “The police threatened me that I’ll be in prison my whole life and I’ll never see the sun again.”ĭaughter of Dubai ruler, Princess Latifa Al Maktoum Composite: Guardian/EPA The phone, Haigh said, contained dozens of messages and videos from Latifa, who had obtained a phone and made recordings from her bathroom, the only room where she could lock the door. Haigh, 43, said he was “horrified” by the idea his phone had been targeted, which he said came a few days after a year and a half of secret smartphone contact with Latifa, then held under house arrest in Dubai, had been suddenly lost. The case in the family courts is continuing. Haya’s own legal team were arguing, in part, that Sheikh Mohammed’s treatment of Latifa meant that he should not be allowed to take control of the children. At the time his phone was compromised, Haigh had been helping the legal team of Princess Haya, a wife of the sheikh, who is embroiled in a battle with the ruler of Dubai in the English courts over the custody of their young children.
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