Australian envoy says academic jailed in Iran doing 'well'
Ambassador Lyndall Sachs visited with Kylie Moore-Gilbert Sunday following her transfer to a notorious desert prison last month.
Australia's envoy to Iran said she recently met with Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a British-Australian academic convicted of espionage, and she is doing “well” in prison.
Iran has held Moore-Gilbert, a lecturer on Middle East politics at the University of Melbourne, since September 2018, when she was arrested after returning from an academic conference in the holy city of Qom.
The Australian government confirmed last month that Moore-Gilbert had been transferred from Evin prison in Tehran to the notorious Qarchak women’s prison in what Iran watchers interpreted as a form of punishment. She denies all charges of espionage, and in December lost an appeal against her 10-year-sentence.
Ambassador Lyndall Sachs visited Moore-Gilbert in prison on Sunday, per a statement from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
