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Detained Australian engineer Robert Pether has left Iraq after being jailed in 2021

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Detained Australian engineer Robert Pether has left Iraq after being jailed in 2021

Australian foreign minister welcomes Iraqi government’s decision to allow engineer to leave Baghdad

Australian engineer Robert Pether has been allowed to leave Iraq after a four-year stint in a Baghdad jail cell that his family feared would kill him.

Pether’s family say they have been “living in hell” since he was arrested without charge in April 2021 in connection to a business dispute between his firm – which was building a new headquarters for the central bank – and the Iraqi government.

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Originally reported by The Guardian. Read the full story at the original source.