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When the mysterious death of a 23-year-old Ugandan woman in Dubai goes viral, she becomes the face of the disturbing #DubaiPortaPotty.
With over 450 million views on TikTok, the hashtag contains parodies and speculative expos茅s of women suspected of being 鈥淒ubai porta potties鈥� - the internet term for supposedly money-hungry influencers willingly getting defecated on to fund lavish lifestyles.
This 蜜芽传媒 Eye investigation reveals that behind these disturbing online rumours lies an even darker reality.
Monic (pronounced Monica) Karungi, known online as Mona Kizz, is the woman who tragically fell to her death from a Dubai high-rise, in 2022. Within hours, her name was trending. A grainy video of a woman jumping from a building began circulating, with social media users claiming it was of Monic, and that she鈥檇 taken her life after a 鈥減orta potty鈥� video of her was leaked. This video was also apparently in circulation.
A reverse image search revealed that the suicide clip wasn鈥檛 of Monic. It hadn鈥檛 even been filmed in Dubai, it was shot in Russia six months earlier. And the graphic 鈥減orta potty video鈥�? That wasn鈥檛 of her either. But on the 1st of May 2022, Monic did fall to her death from a Dubai high rise, and she wasn鈥檛 the only one. In 2021, another young Ugandan woman, Kayla Birungi, also fell to her death in the same Dubai neighbourhood as Monic.
蜜芽传媒 Eye鈥檚 Runako Celina spent two years trying to find answers to why Monic and Kayla died, and if their deaths were connected.
Through undercover footage, women鈥檚 testimonies and OSINT journalism, 蜜芽传媒 Eye exposes an illegal prostitution ring in Dubai, and hears from young Ugandan women who say they were lured to the Gulf, often under false promises of work, only to find themselves trapped in violent, coercive sex work, indebted to a man known in Dubai as 鈥淭he Untouchable.鈥�
Filmed in Uganda, the UAE and the UK, the documentary retraces Monic鈥檚 journey from Kampala to Dubai, where she found herself sharing a flat with 50 other women, who say they were told they owed debts of up to tens of thousands of pounds to this powerful man.

Women鈥檚 testimonies form the emotional core of the film. 鈥楳ia鈥� recalls her charismatic and kind-hearted friend Monic, how they felt trapped, and their fears of never paying off the debt. The women say the only way to pay it off was to see clients, who were often seeking to engage in extreme and racialised abuse. 鈥楲exi鈥�, who says she was trafficked by another network, describes being offered thousands to be urinated on, beaten, or to eat faeces. These clients were willing to pay extra for humiliating 鈥渇etish鈥� acts, directly linking the disturbing online rumour to women like 鈥楲exi鈥檚鈥� brutal reality.

The investigation鈥檚 turning point comes when reporters finally locate 鈥淭he Untouchable.鈥� On hidden camera, posing as event organisers, they capture him describing his 鈥�25 girls,鈥� his prices, and his willingness to provide 鈥渢he craziest鈥� for porta potty requests. Calm and confident, he insists, 鈥淚t鈥檚 part of me.鈥�
This man, who is running an illegal and exploitative prostitution ring in Dubai, also reveals that he was once an east London bus driver.

Set against a backdrop of mass labour migration, with tens of thousands of Ugandans officially sent to the Middle East each year, Death in Dubai: #Dubaiportapotty exposes an illegal prostitution ring in Dubai, systematically exploiting young Ugandan women. And asks, if nothing changes, how many more will meet the same fate as Monic and Kayla?

Details of organisations offering information and support with sexual abuse or feelings of despair are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.