Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran 'moved to remote prison'
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a lecturer at Melbourne University, has been in jail since September 2018
She spent almost two years sleeping on the floor in a cell in the capital Tehran, according to a friend. The jail is sometimes used as punishment for Iranian political prisoners, reports Caroline Hawley, BBC World Affairs Correspondent. Conditions have been described by former inmates as abysmal.
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