Her husband and his new wife Samah Al Hammadi (pictured) were living in Dubai when the Facebook posts were made in October 2016
‘Please let my mum come home, your Highness’: Heartbreaking plea from 14-year-old daughter of British woman facing jail in Dubai for branding her ex-husband’s new wife a ‘horse’ on Facebook
The daughter of a British woman facing jail in Dubai for calling her ex-husband’s new wife a ‘horse’ on Facebook has made a heartbreaking plea for her release.
Laleh Shahravesh was arrested under Dubai’s strict cyber-crime laws after she was reported by Samah Al Hammadi for calling her ‘horse face’ on social media three years ago.
Now her 14-year-old daughter Paris has begged the ruler of Dubai, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to allow her passport to be returned and let the mother go home.
She described how the pair were stopped at Dubai International Airport and were repeatedly shouted at by officers as they were crying after being separated due to a law banning children from police vehicles.
Hammadi, 42, initially told authorities Shahravesh, 55, harassed her on Facebook after discovering her ex-husband, Pedro Manuel Coreia Dos Santos, had remarried.
After being reported to police, Shahravesh was arrested last month at the airport along with her daughter when they arrived in the United Arab Emirates for his funeral after he died unexpectedly.
Shahravesh has been stopped from leaving Dubai for the last 28 days after first being detained in an immigration room at the airport for four hours.
The 55-year-old then went to Jebel Ali Police Station on March 10 and was forced to sign a statement in Arabic and has been unable to leave Dubai ever since.
Paris Shahravesh wrote to Sheikh Mohammed today begging him to let her mother go after she was arrested so soon after her father’s death.
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Her ordeal began on March 14 when Laleh and her daughter flew to Dubai’s for her ex husband Pedro’s funeral
Paris Shahravesh wrote to the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed, today begging him to allow her mother, Laleh, to return home. Pictured is her signature
She wrote: ‘I cannot emphasise enough how scared I felt, especially after losing my father just a week before, as I was having to worry about losing my mother as well.
‘Yet even though I felt terrified on the day that we arrived, the sick feeling in my stomach only became worse.
‘I have not seen my mother in 23 days, and with every passing day, I feel less hopeful of her return. I ask kindly: please, please return my mother’s passport, and let her come home.’
Shahravesh was given fresh hope when it was revealed earlier today the case against her could be dropped.
The complainant could reportedly be about to cease all charges after Hammadi said she would not continue ‘out of respect’ for her late husband’s daughter.
She told Sky News: ‘One of the last messages he [the late husband] tearfully gave me before his death was that he deeply loved his daughter. I am willing to withdraw this case to honour my husband’s love for his daughter.’
Hammadi claimed she decided to make the complaint after ‘suffering in silence’ for over a year and now has no regrets, despite single mother Shahravesh facing up to two years in jail and a fine of £50,000.
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Laleh Sharavesh was arrested along with her 14-year-old daughter Paris when she arrived in the Arab kingdom for her ex’s funeral last month
‘She has been abusing him, sending emails, even to his boss in the bank, saying I am a b***h, that I took him from her, that she doesn’t have money. He sent emails asking her to stop. It did not stop,’ she told the Evening Standard.
‘It is a crime in Dubai. It is right. I don’t feel sorry. She made him [Mr Santos] suffer in the last year of his life. Let the law take part.’
Shahravesh has previously told MailOnline she has had ‘little help’ from consular officials in the UAE after her arrest almost a month ago. She is anxiously awaiting her court appearance later this week.