Daughter begs Dubai: ‘Please let my mother come home’

● Briton likened her former husband’s new wife to a horse

The daughter of a British woman arrested in Dubai over Facebook posts which branded her ex-husband’s new wife a “horse” has begged its ruler to let her come home.

Laleh Shahravesh, 55, faces two years in jail and a £50,000 fine over posts allegedly written three years ago after she discovered that her former partner, Pedro, had remarried, the Detained In Dubai campaign group said.

Ms Shahravesh, from Richmond, south-west London, was arrested with her daughter Paris, 14, at Dubai Airport when the pair visited on 10 March for Pedro’s funeral, a week after his death from a heart attack, aged 51.

They were held for 12 hours before Ms Shahravesh’s passport was seized, Detained In Dubai said.

The teenager, who has since returned to Britain, has written to the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

She said in the letter, published by Detained in Dubai: “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.”

Ms Shahravesh was married to Pedro for 18 years and they lived in Dubai, where he worked for HSBC, for eight months before she returned to Britain with their daughter. Their relationshipbrokedown.

A few months later, in 2016, she unexpectedly received divorce papers and saw from photos on Facebook that Pedro, who was Portuguese, had remarried.

PARIS SHAHRAVESH

In one post, she wrote: “I hope you go under the ground you idiot. Damn you. You left me for this horse.”

In another, which she wrote in Britain, she said: “You married a horse you idiot.”

Ms Shahravesh’s posts, written in Farsi, were reported by Pedro’s new wife, Samah Al Hammadi, 42, from Tunisia, Detained In Dubai said.

Ms Shahravesh said: “I had no idea he was getting married again, and so soon after our own marriage broke down.

“I reacted badly. I lashed out and wrote two unpleasant comments about his new wife on his Facebook page.”

0 Laleh Shahravesh with her daughter, Paris

“I have not seen my mother in days, and with every passing day, I feel less hopeful of her return”