A British woman’s GoFundMe page for her daughter, who is serving a life sentence in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been cancelled for violating the platform’s rules.
The 23-year-old student, Mia O’Brien, currently interned in the Middle Eastern territory’s central prison, was last seen in the United Kingdom in October 2024.
While not saying what her daughter had been convicted of, the woman used the platform to raise funds so that they could visit the incarcerated O’Brien.
The distraught mother claims her daughter threw in with the wrong crowd
“Mia has been given a life sentence in Dubai and she is now in central prison,” the distraught mother wrote on the now-deleted GoFundMe page.
“As you can all probably imagine, as her mother I am absolutely devastated. I haven’t seen my daug