Friends of Kylie from freekylie.net, Nine News
Penned by friends, these are an insight into the plight of imprisoned Australian academic, Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert. Read the full letters here.
MP Josh Burns raises Kylie’s plight in the Australian Parliament
Josh Burns, Member for Macnamara
Today marks 719 days since Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, and Australian academic who lived in my electorate, was imprisoned in Iran on charges of espionage. Dr Moore-Gilbert and the Australian charges reject these charges. She was attending a conference in Tehran in September 2018 when she was arrested at the airport as she was about to leave the country. Listen to the speech here or watch the video here.
Today marks 717 days that Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been imprisoned in Iran
Sarah Abo, Nine
Her name is Kylie Moore-Gilbert. Today marks 717 days that she’s been imprisoned in Iran on trumped-up charges of espionage.As you sit there reading these words, the 33-year-old is on the other side of the world, likely sitting on the concrete floor of a squalid cell on the desert outskirts of Tehran.No one knows very much else about Kylie’s plight at the moment. She was last visited by Australia’s ambassador in Iran about a month ago, who reported she was “well” — a seemingly relative concept. Read here.
Young academic accused of spying imprisoned in Iran for over 700 days
Sarah Abo, 60 Minutes Australia
If you have a free moment, spare a thought for Australian academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert. Her situation is grim. She’s about to start her third year as a prisoner in Iran and is being held in an unimaginably squalid, coronavirus-infested jail outside the capital, Tehran. Her crime, according to the Iranian regime, is that she’s a spy. Dr Moore-Gilbert emphatically denies the accusation, but her appeals have all been ignored or rejected. As Sarah Abo reports, it means her only hope now is for the Australian government to come to her rescue. Watch the episode here.
Professor Greg Barton interviewed on 60 Minutes
FreeKylieMG member Professor Greg Barton was interviewed on Channel 9’s 60 Minutes program. View the full clip here.
Dr Jessie Moritz interviewed on 9 News about Kylie
Dr Jessie Moritz discussed Kylie’s case Channel 9’s evening news tonight.
Dr Dara Conduit speaks to ABC PM
FreeKylieMG member Dr Dara Conduit was interviewed by ABC PM on Kylie’s situation. Listen to the clip here.
Statement in response to Foreign Minister Marise Payne
Statement attributable to the Free Kylie Moore-Gilbert group
Friends and colleagues of Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert welcome Foreign Minister Marise Payne’s decision to break her silence on Kylie’s incarceration in Qarchak prison in Iran.Although Foreign Minister Payne has now stated that Kylie has food and water in Qarchak prison, we remind the Australian government that this was never in doubt. The question is whether that water is clean, because bought bottled water is the only safe drinking water in Qarchak. Read the full statement.
Jailed academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert ‘does not have enough food or water’ in notorious Iranian prison
Emma Yeomans, The Times
A British-Australian academic held in an Iranian jail with an active coronavirus outbreak does not have enough food and water, sources inside the prison have warned. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Cambridge-educated academic, has been held by Tehran for nearly two years and was recently transferred to Qarchak prison, described by human rights groups as the country’s worst. There is a severe coronavirus outbreak within the jail, and a ward has been quarantined. Read more.
Calls to free academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert from Iran’s Qarchak Prison
Jack Gramenz, news.com.au
Academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert boarded a flight to Iran in August 2018 to attend a conference and conduct a few research interviews. Three weeks later she was stopped from flying back to Melbourne by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after one of the people she interviewed reported her as suspicious. Since then she’s been secretly tried and convicted of espionage and is facing a 10-year prison sentence in Iranian prisons. Read more.
Dr Dara Conduit quoted in the Australian on Kylie’s case
FreeKylieMG member Dr Dara Conduit was quoted by The Australian on why she is fighting for Kylie. Read here.
Jailed academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert ‘never took risks’
Jacquelin Magnay, The Australian
Kylie Moore-Gilbert is no maverick, one of her close academic colleagues has revealed, insisting the Australian academic is battling to survive in an Iranian jail for ten years convicted of spying, only because of “hostage diplomacy’’. Melbourne-based Middle East researcher Dara Conduit has known Dr Moore-Gilbert since 2016 when both were finishing PhDs and she insists Dr Moore-Gilbert never took risks. Ms Conduit is the first friend in Twitter campaign @FreeKylieMG to reveal aspects of Dr Moore-Gilbert’s talents in a bid to keep the spotlight on her dire situation in Qarchak prison in the Iranian desert. Read more.
Friends And Family Of Jailed Academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert Fight For Her Release
Jacqui Lang, Marie Claire
When Melbourne academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert visited Iran in August 2018, her visit quickly descended into hell when she was accused of being a spy and jailed for a decade. Two years on, her friends and family are desperately fighting for her release, reports Jacqui Lang. Read more.
Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert relocated to ‘world’s worst’ women’s prison in Iran
Stephen Drill, Herald Sun
It was 2am when the guards came in. Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert had been in solitary confinement in Evin Prison, on the outskirts of Tehran, for almost two years. She was on track to become the prison’s record holder for time spent in unit 2a, which is controlled by the hard line, ruthless Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp. It was a rough early morning wake-up call in late July. She was being moved, but where? And why? She still has eight years to run on her decade-long prison sentence for “spying” charges, which she strongly denies. The case, heard in secret, was conducted in Farsi. Read more.
Continuing failed quiet diplomacy route is ‘foolish’ in Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s case
Chris Kenny and Peter Greste, Sky News
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. Ms Moore-Gilbert was jailed almost two years ago on charges of espionage, with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade lobbying the Iranian government to release her since using what it calls ‘quiet diplomacy’. Read more.
Concern for the safety of Australian-British dual national Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert imprisoned in Iran
Middle East Studies Association, Committee on Academic Freedom
We write on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) to express our escalating concern for the condition of Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert after her transfer from Evin prison to Qarchak, a remote desert facility which has been labelled ‘the worst prison in the world for women.’ We previously wrote to you on 19 May 2020 to protest the harsh and unlawful treatment of Dr. Moore-Gilbert and the inhumane conditions of her detention. Read more.
Dr Jessie Moritz joins The Briefing podcast to discuss Kylie’s case
Dr Jessie Moritz and Dave Sharma spoke to ‘The Briefing’ about Kylie. Listen to the episode here.
Australia’s ambassador to Iran visits jailed academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert in new prison
ABC
Australia’s ambassador to Iran has visited in prison an Australian academic convicted of espionage, saying she is “well”. Key points: Kylie Moore-Gilbert was moved to Qarchak prison last week after two years in Evin prison Lyndall Sachs, Australia’s ambassador to Iran, says Dr Moore-Gilbert has access to food, medical facilities and books Dr Moore-Gilbert’s family says the academic’s best chance at release is through diplomatic avenues Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Melbourne University lecturer on Middle Eastern studies who was sentenced to 10 years’ jail, has already served two years in Tehran’s Evin prison since being convicted of spying — a charge she has rejected. Concerns for her wellbeing escalated last week following news she had been moved to Qarchak prison, east of Tehran. Read more.
Dr Jessie Moritz interviewed by RRR radio
Dr Jessie Moritz discussed Kylie’s situation in RRR radio. Listen here.
Dr Dara Conduit speaks to the BBC World Service’s NewsHour
Listen to Dr Dara Conduit discussing Kylie Moore-Gilbert on BBC News Hour (from 9:25) here.