Deixis9"Dubai has always been a place you escape to, or escape from."
“It’s always the same story,” Radha Stirling, founder of Detained in Dubai, a human rights and advocacy organisation, tells me. “A foreigner comes, sets up, is embraced, starts trading, then an Emirati official or bank manager will target them.”
"Suicides were common."
“It’s remarkable that if you’re British and you get into a scrape with a country that has, you know, money, you’re shit out of luck.” Bill Browder
‘I was beaten and tortured’: how a British father and son made a fortune in Dubai then became wanted men
As the Middle East is drawn into war, expats and influencers are under pressure to only share the positive side of the UAE. In reality many are at risk of being put behind bars, and often find the UK government has little interest in helping them get out