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 researched contemporary political developments in the Middle East. Moore-Gilbert was invited to a conference in Iran in 2018 and was detained at the airport preparing to leave the country. From September 2018 to November 2020, she was imprisoned on charges of espionage. She denied the charges, and no evidence for them was ever made public. She was released by Iran in a prisoner swap on 25 November 2020, in exchange for three Iranian prisoners in Thailand, who had been sentenced in connection with the 2012 Bangkok bomb plot. In 2022, Moore-Gilbert wrote a memoir, The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison, about her experience.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert
