Death in Dubai: Trailer

World of Secrets

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

A woman falls from a tower block. It's caught on camera and the clip goes viral. Within hours, Mona Kizz’s name is trending worldwide. In death, the beautiful 23-year-old Ugandan is accused of being a #DubaiPortaPotty. With over 450 million views on TikTok, the hashtag leads to parodies and speculative exposés of women suspected of being paid by men to be their human toilet. But behind the online rumours lies an even darker reality.

Released from 15th September.

This podcast includes disturbing scenes, including discussion of sexual abuse and suicide. Some episodes also contain strong language.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	A video of a woman falling to her death goes viral.
0:04.2	A Ugandan woman died instantly after she jumped off the tower in Dubai, that is United Arab Emirates.
0:10.6	You can hear the screams of everyone who witnessed it.
0:12.8	The woman in the video stands there for a moment and thinks about things and then just let's go and falls.
0:18.7	TikTokers are claiming this woman who's and then just let's go and falls.
0:28.6	TikTokers are claiming this woman, who they're calling Mona Kiz, is caught up in a disturbing world. Some dark, demented, twisted business is going down in Dubai behind closed doors.
0:34.6	Mona Kiz was a beautiful young woman from Uganda.
0:38.8	She was enchanted by the glam and glitz of Dubai and the Instagram influencer thing.
0:44.0	Mona and her friend were forced to do terrible sexual acts and some of them are unspeakable.
0:48.8	And it was all filmed and released on the internet.
0:51.6	In death, she is accused of being a Dubai Porterpotty.
0:55.3	A Dubai Port-a-Potty is a woman, usually an Instagram model who gets flown out to
0:59.6	Dubai by a rich Emirati who pays them to do horrible, horrible things.
1:04.5	Oh my God.
1:05.6	Do you not watch it?
1:06.6	Is this what it's come down to for a Birkin bag?
1:10.1	She's mocked, judged, humiliated.
1:14.2	All for money, money that disappears.
1:16.3	I'm actually flabbergasted.
1:18.1	I'm not ashamed.
1:20.9	But the internet has got it wrong.
1:25.2	When I look at Mona Kiz's Instagram, she's dancing in top Dubai clubs, posing at the beach.
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