In emotional letter from Iraqi jail, Australian Robert Pether warns his prognosis is ‘bleak’

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Australian Robert Pether, jailed in Baghdad last year over a business dispute, has penned an emotional letter warning his prognosis is “bleak”, his human rights are being violated, and he is facing a potential “death sentence”.

In the letter to his family, released to Guardian Australia, Pether also reveals his daily torment about how he should break it to his children that he might not be coming home.

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This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian.