The University of Melbourne lecturer, sentenced to 10-years jail for spying in Iran, makes her first criticism of the Australian government’s strategy over her case.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert was accused of being an Israeli agent several times by Tim Anderson, who was sacked by Sydney University in 2019, since her release from Irainian jail in November.
The 33-year-old Melbourne University lecturer was on Thursday flying home with Australian diplomats after a drawn-out, secretive government deal to secure her release.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert was accused of being an Israeli agent several times by Tim Anderson, who was sacked by Sydney University in 2019, since her release from Irainian jail in November.
The 33-year-old Melbourne University lecturer was on Thursday flying home with Australian diplomats after a drawn-out, secretive government deal to secure her release.
The University of Melbourne lecturer, sentenced to 10-years jail for spying in Iran, makes her first criticism of the Australian government’s strategy over her case.
These reflections by IranWire’s founder Maziar Bahari was first published on November 27, 2020 after Tehran’s release of imprisoned acad ...
Journalist Peter Greste says continuing with the ‘quiet diplomacy’ strategy to free Kylie Moore-Gilbert from an Iranian prison would be “quite foolish” given the strategy has made the situation worse.
Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert remains imprisoned in Iran on charges of espionage after attending an academic conference in Qom two years ago. Her mounting psychological distress is exacerbated by the prevalence of COVID-19, and a renewed call for action is essential.
The 33-year-old Melbourne University lecturer was on Thursday flying home with Australian diplomats after a drawn-out, secretive government deal to secure her release.
Academic dived to the floor to cling to the visiting Australian ambassador during Tehran ordeal
Kylie Moore-Gilbert thanks those who worked towards her release, which Iran says was a prisoner exchange.
Ana Diamond, who was held for more than six months, says the Australian academic was subject to a ‘sophisticated’ hostage-taking operation
Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been detained in Iran since 2018. Her transfer to a notoriously brutal prison this week has pushed a fellow researcher to speak out.
Intelligent, studious, humble, and unable to sit still. Friends have described Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert as a rising star of academia before she was unexpectedly thrown in an Iranian prison.
Melbourne University lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert — jailed in Iran for spying — has reportedly been moved for “punishment reasons” to the harsh Qarchak prison in the desert.
Centre for Human Rights in Iran says Kylie Moore-Gilbert has tried to commit suicide on at least three occasions.
The academic was met by public health officials after disembarking from a plane at Canberra airport ahead of a 14-day quarantine
The 33-year-old Melbourne University lecturer was on Thursday flying home with Australian diplomats after a drawn-out, secretive government deal to secure her release.
On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran's most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Incarcerated in Tehran's Evin and Qarchak prisons for 804 days, this is the full and gripping account of her harrowing ordeal. Held in a filthy solitary confinement cell for months, and subjected to relentless interrogation, Kylie was pushed to the limits of her endurance by extreme physical and psychological deprivation. Kylie's only lifeline was the covert friendships she made with other prisoners inside the Revolutionary Guards' maximum-security compound where she had been ‘disappeared', communicating in great danger through the air vents between cells, and by hiding secret letters in hava khori, the narrow outdoor balcony where she was led, blindfolded, for a solitary hour each day. Cut off from the outside world, Kylie realised she alone had the power to change the dynamics of her incarceration. To survive, she began to fight back, adopting a strategy of resistance with her captors. Multiple hunger strikes, letters smuggled to the media, co-ordinated protests with other prisoners and a daring escape attempt led to her transfer to the isolated desert prison, Qarchak, to live among convicted criminals. On November 25, 2020, after more than two years of struggle, Kylie was finally released in a high stakes three-nation prisoner swap deal orchestrated by the Australian government, laying bare the complex game of global politics in which she had become a valuable pawn. Written with extraordinary insight and vivid immediacy, The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilbert's remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a powerful meditation on hope, solidarity and what it means to be free.
Academic dived to the floor to cling to the visiting Australian ambassador during Tehran ordeal
Tom Tugendhat, an influential Tory MP, has sparked a diplomatic Twitter row with Iran over the detention of Kylie Moore-Gilbert.
Intelligent, studious, humble, and unable to sit still. Friends have described Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert as a rising star of academia before she was unexpectedly thrown in an Iranian prison.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert was accused of being an Israeli agent several times by Tim Anderson, who was sacked by Sydney University in 2019, since her release from Irainian jail in November.
The 33-year-old Melbourne University lecturer was on Thursday flying home with Australian diplomats after a drawn-out, secretive government deal to secure her release.
The University of Melbourne lecturer, sentenced to 10-years jail for spying in Iran, makes her first criticism of the Australian government’s strategy over her case.
Friends and colleagues of the British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert say her situation is life-threatening and could end disastrously.
Colleagues defend ‘thoughtful and passionate’ Australian-British lecturer, who was sentenced to a decade in prison on suspected espionage charges
Friends and colleagues of the University of Melbourne lecturer have been kept in the dark on her location for almost a week.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert has spent her second Christmas behind bars in a 2m by 3m cell ruled by the feared Revolutionary Guards.
These reflections by IranWire’s founder Maziar Bahari was first published on November 27, 2020 after Tehran’s release of imprisoned acad ...
British-Australian academic was held on espionage charges for more than 800 days
Eight months after being released from jail in Iran, Kylie Moore-Gilbert is living a “calm and settled” life in the leafy quiet of the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne.
It is very clear Iran’s repressive and grotesque regime makes a practice of taking foreigners such as Moore-Gilbert and the others hostage to use as bargaining chips, extracting hefty concessions from other governments, mostly Western, to release them.
Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert is facing an "impossibly difficult" situation in a notorious Iranian prison but is receiving...
Intelligent, studious, humble, and unable to sit still. Friends have described Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert as a rising star of academia before she was unexpectedly thrown in an Iranian prison.
Exclusive: British-Australian academic will meet diplomat for first time since sudden move to a new notorious prison
"There are haunting parallels in the human cost of inhumane imprisonment."
Eight months after being released from jail in Iran, Kylie Moore-Gilbert is living a “calm and settled” life in the leafy quiet of the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne.
Academic dived to the floor to cling to the visiting Australian ambassador during Tehran ordeal
Almost two years ago, the Iranian government arrested Australian scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport as she was leaving Iran after attending an academic conference in Qom. Moore-Gilbert languished in Iran’s Evin Prison for over a year, but, in July, Iranian authorities transferred her to Qarchak Women’s Prison, a prison notorious for
During her time in prison, the British-Australian academic repeated a daily mantra "I am free" as she was subjected to torture. But "harder" for her to process has been the discovery or her husband's infidelity while she was away.
