Mansouri, has revealed how she heard the news that her political science student daughter, Sara, was killed by her Emirati father, who shot her with a Kalashnikov rifle in the desert area of Nahel in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Al-Mansouri traveled to Abu Dhabi to follow up on the case. The father has confessed to killing the young woman, who was in her twenties. The mother said she had been doing charity work in Yemen and had called her daughter from there. “I called Sara on Jan. 30 and told her that I would provide her with my number as soon as I settled in, which I did via a [text] message. But days passed and she did not reply. After 10 days of worrying about her I called her stepsister, Umm Isa, who said that Sara was in her father's other house in Al-Aliya area. I called her stepmother (father's wife) Umm Obaid, who told me that she wasn't home and that all the girls' mobile phones were taken by their father.” Al-Mansouri said she had nightmares because she was so worried. The day before Sara died, she called the stepmother and asked to speak to Sara. The woman told her that Sara was sleeping and would call her when she woke up. “I begged her to tell me how she was because I'd been trying to speak to her for 15 days, and she replied that she was well.” She said she received the news about the death of her daughter on Feb. 23 through her cousin who talked to the father. “My relative told me that Sara's father killed her and buried her in a desert area called Nahel.” Nahel is 30 kilometers from Al-Ain city. A Saudi Embassy official said the embassy has received the Saudi mother and that the deceased will be buried in the UAE because she is an Emirati citizen.
