Jim Fitton: Nearly 100,000 back campaign to free British geologist facing death penalty in IraqMr Fitton has been detained in Iraq for five weeks after allegedly trying to smuggle historic artefacts out of the country.
His family said Mr Fitton collected stones and shards of broken pottery as souvenirs while visiting a site in Eridu, in the country's southeast, as part of an organised geology and archaeology tour.
But they added the items were judged to be artefacts under Iraqi law and the charge levelled at Mr Fitton states "whoever exported or intended to export, deliberately, an antiquity, from Iraq, shall be punishable with execution".
The audacity of cacs still thinking they live in colonial Britain where they can steal another country’s heritage. Iraq said
