Heidi Blake

United Kingdom

Investigative Journalist at The New Yorker

Investigative journalist @NewYorker. Author of From Russia With Blood and The Ugly Game. Co-host of The Runaway Princesses: https://t.co/Dc5K7dhkiA

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Articles

The Texan Doctor and the Disappeared Saudi Princesses

Oct 9, 2024 | flipboard.com | Heidi Blake

1 day agoA Ukrainian raid struck reportedly struck a drone warehouse near Oktyabrsky. A Ukrainian attack on a warehouse in southern Russia blew up 400 Iranian-made Shahed attack drones, according to the Ukrainian general staff. That’s nearly five percent of all the 440-pound Shaheds Russia has deployed so …
Did the U.K.’s Most Infamous Family Massacre End in a Wrongful Conviction?

Jul 28, 2024 | newyorker.com | Heidi Blake

Whitehouse Farm stood in open fields, facing the bleak Essex salt marshes, its columned portico lit by the moon. It was a midsummer night, nearing 4 A.M., when a patrol car sped toward the property. Three police officers got out at the end of the driveway, and a silver car pulled up behind. The driver, Jeremy Bamber, was the twenty-four-year-old scion of a local farming dynasty; his parents, Nevill and June, occupied the Whitehouse.
In the Dark: Season 3

Jul 16, 2024 | newyorker.com | Madeleine Baran |Parker Yesko |Heidi Blake |Willing Davidson

On November 19, 2005, a small group of U.S. Marines killed twenty-four civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The case against them would become one of the most high-profile war-crimes prosecutions in American history, and then it would all fall apart. On Season 3 of the New Yorker investigative podcast, Madeleine Baran and the In the Dark team examine what happened that day in Haditha—and why no one was held accountable. Read more»
The Runaway Princesses

Jan 23, 2024 | newyorker.com | With Madeleine Baran |Heidi Blake

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“The Runaway Princesses,” Episode 1: Sisters

Jan 23, 2024 | newyorker.com | With Madeleine Baran |Heidi Blake

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, has been celebrated for modernizing the United Arab Emirates—espousing gender equality and promising to “remove all the hurdles that women face.” But the New Yorker staff writer Heidi Blake found that some women in the sheikh’s own family endured shocking mistreatment, and that foreign governments failed again and again to help them.
“The Runaway Princesses,” Episode 2: Escape

Jan 23, 2024 | newyorker.com | With Madeleine Baran |Heidi Blake

Shamsa’s effort to claim asylum in Britain was thwarted, and she was taken back to Dubai, where she was drugged and imprisoned. Latifa was just a teen-ager, but she was desperate to help Shamsa, who had been a mother figure to her. Latifa decided that her only option was to escape to another country and bring attention to the sisters’ plight. But she’d never been outside alone, and she had no idea how to cross the border into Oman. She was caught and brutally punished.
“The Runaway Princesses,” Episode 4: Hostage

Jan 23, 2024 | newyorker.com | With Madeleine Baran |Heidi Blake

After Latifa was captured, her supporters heard nothing until one day, more than a year later, her friend Tiina received a message—a handwritten letter from Latifa, smuggled out of the villa where she was being held prisoner. Latifa’s supporters managed to equip her with a secret phone, which she used to make recordings that documented her ordeal. Her family had released carefully staged photos of her, saying that she was “vulnerable” and was being cared for at home.
“The Runaway Princesses,” Episode 3: A Nice Lunch

Jan 23, 2024 | newyorker.com | With Madeleine Baran |Heidi Blake

When Latifa and her friend Tiina reached the yacht Nostromo, for a couple of days it seemed as if their escape might be successful. But back in Dubai Latifa’s friends were questioned about her disappearance, and she and her co-conspirators feared that Nostromo was being followed. Latifa contacted supporters in Britain, letting them know that she’d escaped—she thought that publicizing her case might blunt the response of her father, Sheikh Mohammed.
Princesas arriscam a vida para fugir de Dubai

Jan 4, 2024 | piaui.folha.uol.com.br | Heidi Blake

Em fevereiro de 2018, a princesa Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum fugiu do palácio de seu pai, o emir de Dubai, usando um bote e um jet ski. Recorreu também à ajuda de uma amiga finlandesa, instrutora de artes marciais. A princesa estava com 32 anos. Na adolescência, fora espancada por desafiar o pai. Adulta, foi proibida de deixar Dubai e mantida sob vigilância constante de guardas.
As princesas fugitivas de Dubai

Dec 25, 2023 | piaui.folha.uol.com.br | Heidi Blake

Tradução de Rogério GalindoEm pleno Mar Arábico, durante uma noite de fevereiro de 2018, a princesa Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, filha fugitiva do emir de Dubai, olhava maravilhada para as estrelas. A viagem, iniciada poucos dias antes, tinha sido difícil. Usando um bote e um jet ski, ela fora atingida por ondas poderosas, que encharcaram seus pertences na mochila.