A British-Australian woman who has been sentenced to 10 years in a notorious Iranian prison has been identified as Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert.
The Melbourne University academic, who was working as a lecturer and researcher for the university's Asia Institute specialising in Middle East politics, was jailed in October 2018.On Saturday, the Australian Government confirmed Dr Moore-Gilbert, a Cambridge-educated academic, was being held in prison in Iran.
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