Brit needing urgent cancer treatment stuck in Dubai after authorities refuse to return her passport ‘because she volunteers helping imprisoned children’
Luisa Williams was diagnosed with advanced stage three cancer just a fortnight ago
A CANCER-suffering Brit being held in Dubai fears she could die if authorities do not let her return to the UK for treatment.
Luisa Williams was diagnosed with advanced stage three cancer just a fortnight ago.
"If my kidney bursts my health could be severely compromised.
"I've never done anything wrong and I'm being treated like a murderer.”
The Yorkshire expat has lived in the emirate for ten years but has been dragged into a legal wrangle for a year.
Authorities claim she is being stopped from fleeing the country over allegations of financial fraud related to her charity Volunteers in UAE.
But Luisa says she was dragged into an interrogation over a Facebook post back in December 2015.
At the end she was forced to sign a document written in Arabic and had her passport confiscated.
She denies the allegations.
And left without medical insurance and facing bills of more than £22,000, Luisa says her only hope it returning to be treated on the NHS.
Yet despite warning authorities that if her cancer moves to stage four it will become terminal, she was still not given her passport.
Her lawyer has told her the process of being deported could take up to three weeks and involve her sleeping on the floor at an airport for much of it.
But in a Facebook she maintained: “The day cancer chose to pick me, I’m glad it did and not a mother, or a child, or an elderly person alone.
"I am strong, I am a fighter and I will be able to figure out how to deal with this one way or another."
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