Robert Pether returned to Ireland after five years of detention in Iraq
Robert Pether was arrested in Iraq in 2021 and sentenced to a $16 million fine. After five years in prison, he was released in June 2025, with an Iraqi court dismissing charges and lifting a travel ban.
- Robert Pether was arrested in 2021 in Iraq with an Egyptian colleague and sentenced to a $16 million fine.
- Robert Pether returned to Ireland after being held in prison in Iraq for five years.
- An Iraqi court dismissed charges against Pether in June 2025 and lifted the travel ban.
- An international court found Iraq's central bank was at fault in the dispute.
- United Nations working group on arbitrary detention said the United Nations working group found Robert Pether was arbitrarily detained.
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