Kylie Moore-Gilbert is an Australian-British academic whose expertise is Islamic studies. She served a 10-year prison sentence in Iran on espionage charges when released on November 26, 2020, during a swap with three Iranian prisoners in Thailand charged with Israeli diplomats' unsuccessful bombing. The Thai officials have confirmed the three Iranians' identities, although they are called economically active by Iranian government media. Two years ago, Al-Zahra University and Qom University of Religions invited Kylie Moore-Gilbert to attend Shia studies' seventh conference. Having participated in the conference, she wanted to return to her homeland, but security forces arrested her at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport and sentenced her to ten years in prison. She is a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Melbourne's Asia Institute and has researched revolutions in the Middle East.
In August 2020, It was announced on the Facebook of Nasrin Sotoudeh and her husband, Reza Khandan, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian citizen in the Evin Prison security detention center, had been transferred to Qarchak Prison quarantine as punishment. She said during a call from prison that the conditions were horrible. She reported severe frustration and depression and said, barely could she eat.
“Yesterday I saw her in the Islamic republic TV. I could see anxiety in her innocent eyes. I felt sorry for what she has been through in these two years, but I could do nothing. She was forced to make a confession in Persian on the Islamic Republic TV that she is a spy of Israel. The reality is that the Islamic republic has taken Iran and all Iranians hostage since 40 years ago.”
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Mahtab is an Iranian woman activist.
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