{"id":925295,"date":"2026-10-12T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925295\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:22:12","slug":"australian-detained-in-iraq-returning-home-five-years-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925295\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian detained in Iraq returning home five years after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian detained in Iraq returning home five years after arrest<\/p>\n<p>Published 12 October 2026, 7:52 am<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Penny Wong has confirmed that 51-year-old Australian engineer Robert Pether has finally left Iraq, after being imprisoned for four years. Pether was arrested on fraud charges in 2021 and has long maintained his innocence. SBS Political correspondent Rayane Tamer has the details from Canberra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian detained in Iraq returning home five years after arrest Published 12 October 2026, 7:52 am Foreign Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-925295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}