A Baghdad court has sentenced a British tourist to 15 years in prison for taking pottery shards from the archaeological site of an ancient city in southeast Iraq.
Jim Fitton, left, and Volker Waldmann, center, are escorted by Iraqi security forces outside a courtroom in Baghdad on May 22.
“We could not be more heartbroken and shellshocked,” his daughter, Leila, wrote in an online petition for his release, describing the sentence as a “horrific injustice.” “We are suspending our emotional reactions in favor of positive action to get Jim home,” the statement from his family added.Fitton went to the archaeological site of Eridu,U.S.
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