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    THE SILENCING OF A PRINCESS

    Mar 12, 2021 4 minutes
    BY LAVERN DE VRIES

    IT SOUNDS like a saga straight out of a thriller: an Arab princess and her daughter are snatched from their seafront penthouse in the dead of night. The only clue to their disappearance is a video showing a gang of eight armed men waiting in the lobby of their building.

    There are no ransom notes, no pressure to open the royal vaults and no political demands – yet the princess and her daughter haven’t been seen since.

    This is far from fiction. In March 2019, Princess Basmah of Saudi Arabia and her daughter, Suhoud al-Sharif, were taken from their home in Jeddah and arrested for allegedly using a fake passport to seek medical

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