{"id":52917,"date":"2021-02-25T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T09:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/25\/princess-latifa-letter-uk-police-investigate-sister-shamsa-cambridge-abduction"},"modified":"2021-02-25T09:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T09:01:56","slug":"princess-latifa-letter-urges-uk-police-to-investigate-sisters-cambridge-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/25\/princess-latifa-letter-urges-uk-police-to-investigate-sisters-cambridge-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Latifa letter urges UK police to investigate sister&#8217;s Cambridge abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latifa says in letter passed to police \u2018your help and attention on her case could free\u2019 Princess Shamsa<\/p><p>Princess Latifa, a daughter of Dubai\u2019s ruler who claims to have been held in captivity by her father since 2018, has asked UK police to re-investigate the kidnapping more than 20 years ago of her sister, Princess Shamsa, according to a letter reported by the BBC.<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-56188745\">BBC reported<\/a> that in a letter handwritten in 2019 \u2013 but passed to Cambridgeshire police on Wednesday \u2013 Latifa says the police may be able to free Shamsa, who was abducted on the orders of her father when she was 19.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/19\/united-nations-asks-uae-proof-princess-latifa-alive\">United Nations asks UAE for proof that Princess Latifa is alive<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/25\/princess-latifa-letter-uk-police-investigate-sister-shamsa-cambridge-abduction\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/25\/princess-latifa-letter-uk-police-investigate-sister-shamsa-cambridge-abduction\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latifa says in letter passed to police \u2018your help and attention on her case could free\u2019 Princess ShamsaPrincess Latifa, a daughter of Dubai\u2019s ruler who claims to have been held in captivity by her father since 2018, has asked UK police to re-investigat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8507,6,1258,1314,2720,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52918,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52917\/revisions\/52918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}