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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Robert per - Caught on Camera

In emotional letter from Iraqi jail, Australian Robert Pether warns his prognosis is ‘bleak’

Exclusive: In newly released correspondence, arbitrarily detained engineer speaks of fear skin cancer will return

The Guardian - AU · Nov 7, 2022

Wife of man in Iraq jail rallying hundreds of supporters to oppose new Iraqi embassy in Ireland

Desree Pether fears for her husband Robert, who has been locked up in Baghdad since April of last year

Irish Mirror · Oct 14, 2022

Morning mail: childcare strike, consent warning for films, fears for Australian in Baghdad jail

Wednesday: Tens of thousands of families across the country will be affected by early childhood workers striking for better pay and conditions. Plus: the invention that makes hydrogen from humid air

The Guardian - AU · Sep 6, 2022

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First photos of Australian Robert Pether in Iraqi jail raise ‘serious concerns’ about his health

Jailed engineer appears gaunt with moles doctors fear are cancerous, as wife decries ‘watching his murder in slow motion’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 6, 2022

‘Inhumane detention’: doctors for Australian jailed in Iraq warn Albanese government of his dire health

‘I fear that Australia will in short time be repatriated with the corpse of Mr [Robert] Pether’, say doctors of imprisoned engineer

The Guardian - AU · Aug 9, 2022

Australian man Robert Pether's health deteriorating 16 months after 'arbitrary detention' in Iraq began

There are growing concerns for Australian man Robert Pether, who is languishing in an overcrowded Baghdad jail, with doctors arguing he needs urgent surgery to treat multiple suspected skin cancers.

ABC News · Aug 9, 2022

Irish family fears for health of dad jailed in Iraq amid plea for urgent talks with Taoiseach

The businessman had melanoma — the most serious type of skin cancer — in 2005 and needs regular monitoring check-ups

Irish Mirror · Aug 2, 2022

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Anthony Albanese raises case of jailed Australian engineer Robert Pether with Iraqi PM

Exclusive: Pether, who has been imprisoned for 14 months in Baghdad, has become ‘gravely ill’ according to his family

The Guardian - AU · Jul 1, 2022

Daughter of Robert Pether, jailed and feared tortured in Iraq, asks Scott Morrison to intervene in his case

Nala, 9, takes to social media to call on the Australian government to give more help to her father, who has been locked up in a Baghdad prison for more than a year.

ABC News · May 3, 2022

Wife of Australian man jailed and believed tortured in Iraq criticises federal government's response

The wife of an Australian man suspected of being tortured in an Iraqi jail dismisses assurances from the Foreign Minister that her husband has not been forgotten by the federal government.

ABC News · Apr 26, 2022

Torture reports of prisoner in Iraq raised

A United Nations report has found that Australian Robert Pether has been arbitrarily detained in Iraq and has detailed allegations of torture and abuse.

AAP · Apr 7, 2022

‘Enforced disappearance’: Iraq’s jailing of Australian Robert Pether is arbitrary detention, UN finds

Pether and colleague Khalid Radwan sentenced to five years’ prison after business dispute with Central Bank of Iraq

The Guardian - AU · Mar 29, 2022

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