The Princess and the Power Plays: Latifa, her Father, and Mary Robinson

Dubai's Princess Sheikah Latifa Maktoum, as everyone now knows, left behind a video filled with details about her chauffeur reporting on her comings and goings, her longing to travel, to study medicine, to make her own decisions, her imprisonment as a punishment for trying to escape, her caged sister, and her brutal father, a man who appears to be more ruthless and less restricted, because richer than, Donald Trump. Haven't we all listened to the video the princess secretly recorded? 
Haven't we all then turned to the heart-sickening photos of a tamed--or lobotomized--or drugged--Latifa, her spirit so obviously erased, her expression at the breakfast table vacant, her shoulders hunched? Latifa, holding a pet monkey, smiling like a desperate child longing for approval. Not the same girl at all. The Finnish self-defense instructor, the debonair French former secret service man who tried to help her, recount believable tales of beatings, threats, and a princess who didn't want to go back to Dubai so much that she was screaming, "Kill me now." Judging by the photographs, the princess's personality seems to have been obliterated. It is not Latifa, but her shell that shows in these photos. Is the real Latifa still inside? That is anyone's guess. 
Haven't we all wondered why Mary Robinson, Ireland's former president and now deeply engaged in human rights, would claim Latifa was “troubled” and “vulnerable” and insist that she was “in the loving care of her family?" 
Why did Mary Robinson tell the world that Latifa's loving family just wants to shield her from publicity? Why the story about needed medical care, psychiatric care? The question so far has been "How could Mary Robinson possibly know?" or "Why would she say these things?" 
I haven't found anyone suggesting what is, to me, the depressingly likely answer: Mary Robinson is making the best of a bad situation. She must be well aware that the princess has been tortured and will be tortured until or unless the world believes that Latifa is just another mentally ill pathetic woman who needs to be controlled. Then her father can save face and continue to expect admiration. 
Maybe so, Sheikh.
Maybe your daughter's crazy. Maybe she's bipolar, or schizophrenic, or has been driven nuts by your regime--or maybe she was always delusional. But Siberia, the Bastille, Soviet mental hospitals, have all been populated by persons who were both crazy and able to grasp reality enough to wish to escape an intolerable situation. Ernest Hemingway may have been paranoid, but the F.B.I really was tailing him. 
It's not unusual for empire-builders to choose empire over family, Sheikh.
Benjamin Franklin threw his royalist son in the most unpleasant of prisons. I can't imagine Latifa's is any better. People may know she's crazy, but people wonder why you've cocooned her, silenced all critics, refused any independent investigation. 
Is the answer that you have enough money to do whatever you want? People are whispering. Prove us wrong by letting the princess leave, come to the U.S. or the U.K. or Europe for independent medical treatment.
The whispers are getting louder, will get louder.