‘Enforced disappearance’: Iraq’s jailing of Australian Robert Perther is arbitrary detention, UN finds
by Christopher Knaus from World news | The Guardian on (#5XKSA)
Perther and colleague Khalid Radwan sentenced to five years' prison after business dispute with Central Bank of Iraq
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.
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