This villa has been converted into a jail.

All the windows are barred shut.

I can't open any window.

Newly released footage purports to show a daughter of the ruler of Dubai held against her will in what she describes as a villa converted into a jail.

I've been by myself solitary confinement.

UM, no access to medical help, Um no child or charge nothing.

Britain's BBC published the video on its Panorama News program Tuesday.

Reuters has been unable to independently verify when or where the video was recorded.

Sheikha Latifa Bint Mohammed al Maktoum made headlines in 2018 when she claimed she'd been abducted by her father.

Ah human rights group at the time, released video she made describing an attempt to escape Dubai by boat.

Um, well, basically, she asked me in summer 2000 and 17 if I would help her escape from goodbye.

Last year, one of her friends described harrowing abduction to Reuters.

The last time I saw her, yes, she was kicking and screaming, and she was tracked off the boat.

Shaka Latifah's mother, Princess Haya, is the former wife of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid in a legal battle last year, a London High Court judge accepted her allegation that the ruler ordered Latifah's abduction.

His lawyers rejected the allegations.

I'm a hostage.

The Free Latifah campaign, which has lobbied for her release, said it managed to smuggle a phone to her.

The Dubai government referred questions about the video to the rulers law firm, which did not respond to a request for comment.