Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Kylie Moore-Gilbert is an Australian-British academic in Middle Eastern political science. She was employed as a lecturer at the University of Melbourne's Asia Institute and has carried out research into contemporary political developments in the Middle East. The subject of her PhD research was post-Arab Spring Bahrain.
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| Born | 1987 Gosford, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Occupation | Academic |
| Known for | Author |
| Title | The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison |
| Relatives | Bart Moore-Gilbert (uncle) |
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| Education | PhD |
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| Thesis | Shiʿi opposition and authoritarian transition in contemporary Bahrain: the shifting political participation of a marginalised majority (2017) |
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| Discipline | Political Scientist |
She was invited to a conference in Iran in 2018. When she was at the airport leaving Iran she was detained. From September 2018 to November 2020 she was imprisoned in Iran on charges of espionage. Moore-Gilbert denies the charges the Iranian government made against her, and no evidence of her alleged crimes has ever been made public. The Australian government has rejected the charges as "baseless and politically motivated".
Moore-Gilbert was released by Iran in a prisoner swap on 25 November 2020, in exchange for three Iranian convicted terrorists in Thailand, who had been sentenced in connection with the 2012 Bangkok bomb plot.