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Peter Margetts

PETER MARGETTS

Communications Director

Peter Margetts, Communication Director at Detained International.  Peter is responsible for press relations and strategic communication with national & international governments, institutions, intra-governmental bodies and NGOs.

Peter is a businessman and entrepreneur.  He holds a BA honours degree in Building Management and Technology and is fluent in Spanish and English.  He spent 5 years living in Dubai and the Middle East.  Peter was trapped by Dubai’s draconian laws on bank cheques, spending ten years imprisoned in Dubai, having been originally sentenced to 46 years for a bad check.  A sentence Peter had reduced to 9 years with his relentless campaigning and a brutal hunger strike.  Peter is a very determined individual.

 

A highly successful entrepreneur, Peter opened his property and investment firm Hampstead & Mayfair in Dubai in 2004, achieving a $100m turnover.  The Dubai property crash in 2008 caused cheques written by the company to bounce, and he was given a life sentence for breaching Dubai’s horrendous laws concerning cheques.  He spent many years in jail, and was finally released in 2019.  His hunger strike brought global attention to the ridiculous cheque laws, unfortunately it led to Peter having a stroke in jail.  He sets all this out in his fascinating prison memoirs ‘When’s Daddy Coming Home?’ (Conrad Press, 2020).

 

Detained International does not seek to be a huge organisation, supporting offices or employed experts across the globe.  Instead, we act as a small hub of expertise on injustice and Human Rights violations from personal experience or direct involvement, working in partnership with the best local experts.

If you think you have skills that you feel we could benefit from, please contact us. careers@detained.org.uk

Contact Peter : pm@detained.org.uk

Thank you for visiting Detained.org.uk.

Our new website is launching soon.

 

Detained International is a not-for-profit human rights organisation providing free legal advocacy, crisis support, and media and political campaigning for victims of injustice in Dubai and the wider UAE. While we put the finishing touches to our new site, we are also excited to be unveiling a fresh rebrand and have some exciting news about joining forces with some fantastic fellow human rights advocates, together, we will be an even more indomitable force for those who have nowhere else to turn. One thing remains constant, when individuals and families face their most desperate moments in Dubai and the wider UAE, we are there for them, free of charge.

 

Our team of specialist lawyers, crisis managers, media, PR and communications experts, and expert witnesses has an unrivalled track record across some of the most high-profile human rights cases in Dubai and the UAE. Whether it is a wrongful arrest, a custody dispute, cross-border litigation, an Interpol Red Notice, bringing an injustice to the United Nations, our international campaign to free Princess Latifa, our support to Princess Haya, or our work standing alongside the remarkable and courageous Zeynab Zavadli in her fight for justice for herself and her children, we have been at the forefront of it all for over a decade. This new website is long overdue.

 

Watch this space.

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