Anthony Albanese raises case of jailed Australian engineer Robert Pether with Iraqi PM

Exclusive: Pether, who has been imprisoned for 14 months in Baghdad, has become gravely ill' according to his family

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The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has raised the case of jailed engineer Robert Pether with the Iraqi leader, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, as the Australian's family warns he has become gravely ill" and is rapidly deteriorating in his Baghdadi jail cell.

Pether has now been imprisoned for more than 14 months following a commercial dispute between his engineering firm and Iraq's central bank, which had hired Pether's company to help build its new Baghdad headquarters. Pether's family say he is innocent and the trial was unfair and compromised.

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