The Latest Breaking News from Robert Per

Australian engineer Robert Pether, who’s been behind bars for 19 months, has been served with papers demanding a huge sum of money.

Exclusive: In newly released correspondence, arbitrarily detained engineer speaks of fear skin cancer will return

There are growing concerns for Australian man Robert Pether, who is languishing in an overcrowded Baghdad jail, with doctors arguing he needs urgent surgery to treat multiple suspected skin cancers.

The businessman had melanoma — the most serious type of skin cancer — in 2005 and needs regular monitoring check-ups

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

Nala, 9, takes to social media to call on the Australian government to give more help to her father, who has been locked up in a Baghdad prison for more than a year.

The wife of an Australian man suspected of being tortured in an Iraqi jail dismisses assurances from the Foreign Minister that her husband has not been forgotten by the federal government.

A United Nations report has found that Australian Robert Pether has been arbitrarily detained in Iraq and has detailed allegations of torture and abuse.

Pether and colleague Khalid Radwan sentenced to five years’ prison after business dispute with Central Bank of Iraq