Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Kylie Moore-Gilbert is a Middle Eastern affairs expert and lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Melbourne. She was arrested after traveling to Iran. The Islamic Republic is accused of using foreigners or dual nationality citizens as hostages and pawns for negotiations.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='26734'> Kylie Moore-Gilbert had traveled to Iran to attend the 7th International Conference on Shiite Studies with the invitation of Alzahra University and the University of Religions and Denominations in Qom city. She was arrested in September 2018 while returning to Australia. According to IPA, she indicates in a letter that one of the people she interviewed identified her as a suspect of the IRGC. The letter has been recorded in the evidence section of this page. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29886'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/media/file_evidence/Moore-Gilberts_letter_to_the_Australian_PM_-_2019_-_CHRI.pdf'> In a letter to the Australian PM, Moore-Gilbert requested that the government should pressure the Iranian Government asking for her release: > I am writing to you to beseech your government to do more, to make difficult diplomatic decisions if necessary. Yes, you are dealing with a state within a state, but even the Revolutionary Guard is not immune to external political (and particularly economic) pressures. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29889'> Following the news of the arrest of two other Australian citizens, Mark Firkin and Julie King, who was arrested during another case, the news of Moore-Gilbert's arrest was also published. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28506'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/media/file_evidence/letters.pdf'> Moore-Gilbert wrote a letter to a Mr. Vaziri (possibly Amin Vaziri, one of the prosecutors) and said: > IRGC interrogators have suggested that if she spies for them her sentence will be reduced to 13 months in prison and she will be released afterward. Kylie Moore Gilbert said in response to the request: “I am not a spy. I have never been a spy, and I am not interested in working for any country's spy agencies.” According to another letter, the IRGC agents showed her two different sentences of 10 years in prison, and 13 months in prison, a few months later. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29891'> Moore-Gilbert wrote a letter to a Mr. Vaziri (probably Amin Vaziri, one of the Judicial prosecutors), which stated that she had been taken to the hospital twice, and six times in the past month to the infirmary. She emphasized that she is in a difficult situation. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='26737'> Gholam Hossein Esmaili, the Iranian judiciary's spokesman, confirmed the arrest of several Australian citizens. He said that Mrs. Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been spying for a government other than Australia. The reports about her 10 years in prison conviction have not been confirmed yet. The judiciary's spokesman also said that no decision had been issued against her, and the trial will be held soon. The Australian Government is following the detainees' situation, but they have not achieved any positive results. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29887'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/media/file_evidence/Moore-Gilberts_letter_to_the_Australian_PM_-_2019_-_CHRI.pdf'> Moore-Gilbert requested help in a letter to the Australian PM. She announced that her condition has not changed in the last months. According to the letter, she has engaged in hunger strikes five times to protest her confinement. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29892'> Moore-Gilbert wrote a letter to a Mr. Vaziri (probably Amin Vaziri, one of the Judicial prosecutors) and stated that she was shown two different appeals court’s judgments on the same day. One judgment has reduced her punishment to 13 months in prison, and the other upheld the 10 years of imprisonment. The person in charge of her case said that the lawyer and the embassy officials made up the 13-month sentence to release her from prison. On the other hand, the security officer of ward 2-A told her that she was sentenced to 13 months in prison officially. In her letter, she asks how it is possible that two different sentences were imparted to ward 2-A on the same day. "The IRGC's intelligence has put me in a terrible game, I am an innocent victim, I have been in temporary detention without any reason for 14 months, and I am currently unable to play such a game," she wrote in her letter. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28026'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/en/judge/5/'> "Kylie Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for the charge of espionage", Zeitoon reports quoting the Australian Herald Sun newspaper. IPA researchers have concluded that Judge Salavati has issued Kylie Moore-Gilbert's judgment. Judge Salavati owes his infamy to his role in the violation of fundamental rights of Iranian citizens, ignoring fair trial rules, and violating the independence of the Judiciary. Based on the information gathered by the Iran Prison Atlas from March 2016 to March 2020, Judge Salavati has tried at least 240 of the opponents and critics of the Iranian regime, given them a collective 1,208 years in prison, two life sentences, and 24 death sentences. On average, he has committed three judicial violations in each case; about 88 percent of the people who have sentenced by him lacked free access to a lawyer; about 65 percent were kept in security detention cells for more than two weeks; half of his defendants were barred from contacting family members, and about 19 percent of his prisoners experienced physical torture. To see Abolghasem Salavati's profile on IPA click on the link. Despite all this, not only has he not been dismissed or had his behavior reviewed by the Iranian Judiciary, but he remains a favorite judge of the Islamic Republic for political cases. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28102'> Kylie Moore-Gilbert and Fariba Adelkhah have gone on a hunger strike. They asked their family and friends to support and join them. According to Deutsche Welle, they have declared in a letter that they have been deprived of minimum human rights during their detention. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29885'> Iran's foreign ministry spokesman says Iran will not give in to political propaganda, and Kylie Moore-Gilbert will serve her sentence with all legal rights. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29883'> <reference source='https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/jailed-australian-academic-kylie-mooregilbert-reveals-ordeal-in-irans-evin-prison/news-story/55b4fa1b7a2e25c82ce888a03411ccd6?from=htc_rss'> Australian Senator Marise Payne’s attempt to negotiate for her release occurred in New Delhi. “The Foreign Minister has raised the case with her Iranian counterpart, Foreign Minister Zarif, in letters and face-to-face meetings, including as recently as their meeting on 16 January in New Delhi” a spokesman said. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29890'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/media/file_evidence/letters.pdf'> The Iranian Human Rights Center has published the English version of letters written in ward 2-A by Kylie Moore-Gilbert to Iranian authorities. Earlier, the Guardian and the Times of London published excerpts from the letters. In these letters Mrs. Moore-Gilbert has detailed her situation since her arrest. Moore-Gilbert maintains that she has been held in solitary confinement for months, the interrogator did not return her English books despite the judge's order, and she has been deprived of having phone calls or visits for months. She also rejected a request that she spy on behalf of the IRGC. IRGC agents have also refused to transfer her to the public ward for more than a year. Moreover, she is not paid enough money (about two million tomans a month), despite repeated requests from the Australian embassy to buy medicine and foods due to her allergies. The letters are recorded in the evidence section of this page. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29884'> The Iranian government's foreign ministry spokesman stated the Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Foreign Minister of Iran, has not spoken to the Australian Foreign Minister about Kylie Moore-Gilbert. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29882'> According to the Herald Sun, Dave Sharma, the MP for Wentworth, asked for her release due to the Coronavirus outbreak. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30473'> <reference source='https://www.facebook.com/reza.khandan.5/posts/3189766474367012'> Human rights activist, Reza Khandan, wrote on his Facebook page that Kylie Moore-Gilbert has attempted suicide on three occasions. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30585'> <reference source='https://www.radiozamaneh.com/505427'> Kylie Moore-Gilbert's family "denies" her suicide attempt in prison by issuing a statement. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='31934'> <reference source='https://persian.iranhumanrights.org/1399/05/kylie-moore-gharchak-transfer/'> Kylie Moore Gilbert was transferred to Qarchak Prison. She is being kept among dangerous prisoners. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33154'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-27073/'> HRANA reports the problems of women political prisoners in Qarchak prison. According to the report, the political prisoners transferred to Qarchak prison to pressure them without observing the separation of accusations. At least 16 defendants and political prisoners are being kept in this prison without observing the principle of separation of accusations and being deprived of basic facilities. Also, the inferior quality of prison food, lack of necessary facilities, the problem of the prison sewage system, constant shortage of freshwater, lack of medical and sanitary facilities, especially after the outbreak of coronavirus, lack of medical deployments, and high prison density cause many problems for These prisoners. Seventeen women prisoners such as Golrokh Ebrahimi Erayi, Marjan Davari, Kylie Moore Gilbert, Elham Barmaki, Zahra Safaei, Parastoo Moeini, ‌ Forough Taghipour, Leila Mirghafari, Pirzad Hamidi Shafaq, Zohreh Sarv, Fereshteh Didani, Soheila Hejab, Samira Hadian, Gita Hor, Zeinab Alipour, Raha Ahmadi and Leila Akbari are being kept in this prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33221'> <reference source='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTCLw9dXZKo'> She was transferred from Qarchak prison to another place. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33600'> <reference source='https://www.iribnews.ir/fa/news/2932111/%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3-%D8%B5%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D8%B3%D9%87-%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C'> According to IRIB, Kylie Moore Gilbert was exchanged with three Iranian prisoners and released. IRIB claimed that these people were "economic prisoners," but after a few hours, it became clear that they were involved in planning a bombing in Thailand. They were planning to assassinate several Israeli diplomats in Bangkok, but Thailand Police arrested them. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>