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Australian engineer Robert Pether leaves Iraq five years after arrest

ABC News Australia - Politics · 12 October 2026 at 1:56 pm

Robert Pether was arrested in 2021 and served more than four years behind bars over what friends and family called trumped-up fraud charges.

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