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The investigator specializing in Middle East affairs landed at the airport in the capital, Canberra, after spending more than 800 days in an Iranian prison, according to Australian public broadcaster ABC.
The investigator arrived in the midst of great discretion, as the Australian government reported that Moore-Gilbert had requested that her privacy be respected until this ordeal passed.
She was released on Friday after being incarcerated for two years, which she described as a “long and shocking ordeal.”
In a statement released by the Australian Foreign Office, Gilbert-Moore said that the support he received during his detention “meant the whole world to me.”
She was released in exchange for the release of 3 Iranians accused of being involved in an attack suspected of targeting Israeli diplomats.
An Australian government plane landed Australia time Friday night in Canberra from an airbase on Australia’s western coast to where Moore-Gilbert was flying after leaving the Middle East.
The 33-year-old investigator was arrested in 2018 by the Revolutionary Guards after attending a conference in Qom, central Iran, where she was charged with espionage and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He is one of a group of foreign detainees in Iran’s prisons on espionage charges, which have been widely criticized internationally, and are described by their families and human rights groups as unfounded.
