Timeline of events in lives of Dubai ruler’s daughters and ex-wife

From alleged abduction of daughters to hacking ex-wife’s phone, family affairs of Sheikh Mohammed over 20 years

Princess Shamsa, then 19, is abducted from the streets of Cambridge, it is alleged by staff working for her father, Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum, and forced to return to the United Arab Emirates. The Guardian is the first to report in December 2001 that detectives are examining Shamsa’s kidnapping by agents of her father.

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Dubai ruler hacked ex-wife using NSO Pegasus spyware, high court judge finds

Sheikh Mohammed used spyware on Princess Haya and five associates in unlawful abuse of power, judge rules

The ruler of Dubai hacked the phone of his ex-wife Princess Haya using NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus spyware in an unlawful abuse of power and trust, a senior high court judge has ruled.

The president of the family division found that agents acting on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who is also prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, a close Gulf ally of Britain, hacked Haya and five of her associates while the couple were locked in court proceedings in London concerning the welfare of their two children.

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