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The image was taken from a video on Iranian state television and shows Kylie Moore-Gilbert in Tehran.
The release of British-Australian scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who has been jailed in Iran on conviction for denying espionage, is welcome in Australia.
Three Iranian prisoners in Thailand are said to have been released in exchange for their release.
“She is with Australian officials who are giving her all the support she needs,” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morison told Sunrise television, where he said he had spoken with her after her release.
– We are very happy, he says.
Expressions of joy are also heard from the Secretary of State, Moore-Gilbert’s workplace, family and others who have committed to her release.
Bitter feelings
She herself says in a statement according to ABC News that it is with “bittersweet feelings that she left her country, despite the injustices to which I have been subjected,” in reference to Iran.
“I feel nothing but respect, love and admiration for the great nation of Iran and its caring, generous and courageous people,” he said.
She says it will take time to adjust and that she has a challenging period ahead.
Scott Morrison is on the same track:
– It will be a great fit for Kylie, she has been through a terrible ordeal, a completely horrible ordeal, she tells Sunrise.
Three other prisoners
According to Iran, Moore-Gilbert was released in exchange for three Iranian prisoners. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, these are Saeed Moradi, Mohammad Khazaei and Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh, detained in Thailand since 2012 on suspicion of planning a bomb attack.
Morrison declined to comment, but said no one in Australia had been released.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, 33, has worked at the University of Melbourne teaching Islamic studies.
She was arrested on a trip to a conference in Iran in September 2018 and sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage. The trial was held in secret and Iran only confirmed its verdict later.
Isolated sat
Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian was detained in Iran for a year and a half after being sentenced in 2014. He was delighted with Moore-Gilbert’s release.
– She has been isolated for a long time, even longer than me and I can say that after a year and a half in the same facility as her, I knew very little about how the outside world acted around my case, she says. him according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
In Iran, the Swedish-Iranian Ahmadreza Djalalis is also in custody, sentenced to death. He is a doctor and has conducted research at the Karolinska Institutet in Solna and both the EU and Sweden are doing intensive diplomatic work to ensure that Iran does not carry out the punishment.
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