Is Dubai a place with good protection against government pressure?
Depends on the government :)
The German government has been throwing a temper tantrum and threatening to bad Telegram because Telegram doesn't respond to data requests from German police and spies.
that 'temper tantrum' is colloquially known as the rule of law, and Telegram has cooperated with the government concerning terrorism and child abuse as they should, or alternatively leave if they consider those rules unacceptable.
https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2022/06/telegram-has...
It is the nature of an international network that you cannot reasonably expect your government's laws to have any say on a service run in another part of the world. If you do think your government SHOULD have a way to enforce their laws in another country, maybe the internet is not for your country.
European (and for that matter, Canadian[1]) courts wanting stuff gone internationally is well-documented[2]. It is not unconceivable that German enforcement agencies would use similar tactics. Once you give them the small finger, they will take the whole arm.
[1] https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/16701/inde... [2] https://www.heise.de/news/Gericht-Facebook-muss-bei-Rechtsve...
The question is: can German police compel Dubai police to perform the query? Can Russian police to that? Can US police do that?
May be UAE will be 21-century Switzerland which failed miserably at being independent, but this specialization of being independent is in demand.