Charges against Irish citizen detained in Iraq are dropped

Anti-corruption activist Yasser Eljuboori with his wife Laura Wickham. Picture: Laura Wickham

Charges against an Irish citizen who was detained by police in Iraq earlier this week as he prepared to board a flight back to Ireland have been dropped.

Yasser Eljuboori, 37, had been held by police in Baghdad since he attempted to board a flight out of the Iraqi capital on Monday. He had spent a week in Iraq visiting his ill mother.