Innocent “hostage” Robert Pether, who was jailed in Iraq on fraud charges, was found to have an enlarged prostate after he was hospitalised three times in a week. His distraught family in ...

An Australian man has been conditionally released from prison in Iraq, after four years of what the UN has called arbitrary detention. Robert Pether, a mechanical engineer, was jailed in 2021 on ...

A Dubai resident is seriously unwell after being conditionally released from prison in Iraq, his family revealed to The National. Robert Pether, from Australia, along with his Egyptian co-worker ...

The Irish wife of Iraq “hostage” Robert Pether has urged the Tánaiste to meet her amid increasingly urgent fears for her husband’s life in a Baghdad jail. Construction engineer Rob, 49, who ...

Robert Pether was designing Iraq’s central bank in Baghdad when a contract dispute broke out between his employer the country’s government. The quarrel resulted in Mr Pether and an Egyptian ...

An Australian engineer has been freed after spending four years in an Iraqi prison, officials have confirmed.

Robert Pether was designing Iraq’s central bank in Baghdad when a contract dispute broke out between his employer the country’s government.