Human rights organisation Detained in Dubai today called for the immediate safeguarding of Ryan John Michael Pepper, a British father of young children from Ashford, Kent, held in Sharjah CID detention for many months with severely limited family contact.

British father Ryan Pepper has reported that he has been beaten, threatened and psychologically abused inside a Dubai detention facility while British officials struggled to obtain meaningful private access to him following repeated safeguarding concerns raised by his devastated family.

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