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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.
Tehran, IRAN:  TO GO WITH AFP STORY IRAN-JUSTICE-PRISON-SOCIT BY PIERRE CELERIER  An Iranian inmate peers from behind a wall as a guard walks by at the female section of the infamous Evin jail, north of Tehran, 13 June 2006. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE  (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

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.

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