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British-Australian Lecturer Has Been Held in Iranian Prison for Past Year Convicted of Espionage

September 21, 2019

British-Australian Lecturer Has Been Held in Iranian Prison for Past Year Convicted of Espionage

Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Studies Institute, was arrested in Iran and charged with espionage. She has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. This week it was revealed that a British-Australian academic who had been teaching at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute in Australia was arrested in Iran in October of 2018 , tried allegedly for ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: charged, Espionage, Kylie, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, lecturer, Moore-Gilbert, Prison, sentenced

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