9 News Australia publishes the Gulf Injustice Podcast on Joe Sarlak
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"An Australian grandfather trapped in Qatar after being imprisoned over bounced cheques has pleaded for the Australian government to help get him home, as it did academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert.
Joe Sarlak, 70, was in a squalid jail for more than two and a half years in the Middle Eastern country.
And while he has now been cleared and released, ongoing legal proceedings - which his lawyers say are being filed purely to keep him in the country - mean he's banned from leaving.
Mr Sarlak said he was disappointed nothing had been done to help him, after Australia secured the release of Ms Moore-Gilbert, who was in a jail in Iran for more than two years.
Australia also demanded an apology from Qatar over the strip search of Australian female plane passengers after a baby was abandoned in a Doha airport.
Mr Sarlak, who has two grandchildren he's never met, said the imprisonment of the academic, which he heard about while he was in jail, upset him."