Kylie Moore-Gilbert is a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute. She was imprisoned in Iran under a charge of espionage from September 2018 to November 2020. The Australian government has rejected the charges as ‘baseless and politically motivated’ She was released by Iran in a ‘prisoner swap’ in exchange for three Iranian prisoners in Thailand.
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert is an Australian-British academic and expert on Islamic studies. She is a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute. From September 2018 to November 2020, she was imprisoned in Iran under a charge of espionage. The Australian government has rejected the charges as ‘baseless and politically motivated’ She was released by Iran in a ‘prisoner swap’ in exchange for three Iranian prisoners in Thailand, two of whom had been convicted in connection with the 2012 Bangkok bomb plot.
She denies the charges the Iranian government made against her, and no evidence about her alleged crimes has ever been made public. The Young Journalists Club, a news agency in Iran, stated that Moore- Gilbert was a ‘dual national spy’ who worked for the Zionist regime. In a personal note written for the public, she wrote that she had been held overseas for a ‘long and traumatic ordeal’ She is the cousin of Julian Assange and the wife of British journalist Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
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