Jim Fitton: Jailed British geologist reunited with family
A geologist who was jailed in Iraq has been reunited with his family following his release./ Jim Fitton, 66, from Somerset, was accused of trying to remove artefacts from the country and was/ and he flew to Malaysia to be reunited with his family on Friday./ Mr Fitton's daughter Leila Tasker, from Bath, said the ordeal had been "worse than a nightmare"./ The retired geologist was arrested at Baghdad airport on 20 March, charged under a 2002 law against "intentionally taking or trying to take out of Iraq an antiquity", which carries the ...
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