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Thailand revealed that it had “returned three Iranians who were in custody due to failed bombings against Israeli diplomats in Bangkok in 2012, and Thailand’s Department of Prisons said Sadaqat Zadeh and Muradi were released on Wednesday, while a royal pardon was issued. for the third, Muhammad Khazaee, in August. “
All three Iranians have been jailed in Thailand since a failed attempt to assassinate Israeli diplomats in 2012.
The Thai Prison Service stated that “Sadaqat Zadeh and Moradi were transferred as prisoners to Iran, while Khazaee received a royal pardon.”
While the first images released Wednesday night, depicting a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Melbourne in Australia, excited the joy of her family, who had worked for a long time to secure her release.
The Iranian Radio and Television Agency (IRIB) released images showing Laure Gilbert at Tehran airport alongside the Australian ambassador to Iran, Lyndall Sach.
Other images also showed three men, one of them in a wheelchair, having ceremonies honored by Iranian officials, including Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi.
It is reported that in letters leaked from prison and published by the British media in January, Moore-Gilbert wrote that he “spent ten months in solitary confinement, leading to a significant deterioration in his health.”
In a letter in Farsi to Iranian authorities, Moore-Gilbert claimed that he had “officially and categorically rejected an offer” to work for the Revolutionary Guard Intelligence Service, “according to the British newspapers” The Guardian “and” Times “.
And he continued: “They will not convince me to change my mind in any way”, stating: “I am not a spy, nor have I ever been.”
Moore-Gilbert also complained, in letters written between June and December 2019, that he was denied prison visits or making phone calls, referring to health problems.
The letters bore the signature of an “innocent political prisoner”, who expressed her feeling that she was “abandoned and forgotten.”
In addition, the investigator requested in these letters to be transferred to the General Section for Women of the Evin Prison in Tehran, after having spent months in solitary confinement, while saying that it was “a small cell with continuous light.”
Later, she was transferred to the department where the Iranian-French Academy Fariba Adelkhah, and the British-Iranian Nazinin Zaghari-Ratcliffe were also located.
It is noteworthy that Tehran has always been accused of conducting “hostage diplomacy”, referring to the arrest of citizens with dual nationality, with the aim of obtaining benefits from the second countries of their nationality.
After more than 800 days in prison, the Middle East affairs specialist described her arrest on Thursday as “a long and traumatic ordeal”, adding that “the support she received while in detention was what concerned her most.”
The 33-year-old investigator was arrested in 2018 by the Revolutionary Guards after attending a conference in the central Iranian city of Qom, charged with espionage and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
