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A retired British geologist was part of a tour group visiting Iraq in March when he picked up some shards of pottery and stones on the ground at the Sumerian archaeological site...
The man’s lawyer said he plans to immediately appeal the decision, which left his family feeling “hopeless” and “broken.”
The retired geologist said he did not know it was illegal to take the pottery shards when he picked them up from the site. The harshness of his sentence came as a surprise.