Iraq’s arrest and imprisonment of Australian engineer Robert Pether was contrary to international law, constituted “enforced disappearance”, and may have involved forms of torture, a United Nations body has found.
Pether and colleague Khalid Radwan were detained in Baghdad in early April last year after they returned to Iraq to resolve a business dispute between the government and their employer, CME Consulting, which was working on the new headquarters for the Central Bank of Iraq.
