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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
James King

Company emails at odds with evidence used to jail Australian engineer Robert Pether in Iraq

Australian engineer Robert Pether
Australian engineer Robert Pether has spent two years behind bars after he was jailed in Baghdad over a business dispute between his employer and the Iraqi government. Photograph: Suppied

A cache of documents has undermined key evidence that was relied upon by Iraqi authorities to jail the Australian engineer Robert Pether, prompting renewed calls for his release.

Pether, a father of three, has meanwhile made allegations that a “confession” statement used against him was mistranslated by a biased employee of Iraq’s central bank before being handed to court.

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