Kylie Moore-Gilbert

2022 - 3 - 27

Inside Kylie Moore-Gilbert's 'terrifying' 804 days in a Tehran prison (3AW)

When Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert accepted an university invitation to travel to Iran in 2018, she could never have imagined the horrific ordeal ...

During her time behind bars, Ms Moore-Gilbert survived solitary confinement in a two metre by two metre cell, a beating which ended with a tranquiliser, several hunger strikes and the attention of a high-level figure in the IRGC who was infatuated by her (and whose wife also happened to be a guard at Tehran’s Evin Prison). A Bahraini contact she was speaking to for a separate research project had sold her out. When she came to check in for her return flight to Australia, her trip took a terrifying turn.

Kylie Moore-Gilbert retells survival of 804 'terrifying' days in an ... (4BC)

When an Australian academic accepted an university invitation to travel to Iran, she couldn't have predicted the harsh fate that befell her.

Ms Moore-Gilbert told Neil Breen four months ticked by before she was able to speak with a consular representative. Kylie Moore-Gilbert travelled to Iran in August 2018 to attend a seminar on Shia Islam with a number of foreign scholars. When she came to check in for her return flight to Australia, her trip took a terrifying turn.

Aussie's horror meal in foreign prison (Herald Sun)

The Melbourne academic who was put through hell in an Iranian jail cell has revealed what she was forced to eat — food she says she had great difficulty ...

Morning mail: Ukraine ceasefire talks, Coalition spending spree ... (The Guardian)

Tuesday: Analysis reveals Morrison government funnelling billions into must-win marginal seats. Plus: Kylie Moore-Gilbert talks about her 804 days as a ...

A Guardian Australia analysis of the 144 projects being funded by the government in Tuesday’s budget shows that just 21 are included on Infrastructure Australia’s current list of priority projects, accounting for $5.7bn of the approximate $16bn in new funding. A report has called for greater transparency on how taxpayer funds are being spent by aged care operators, the Age has reported. Just 15% of projects announced in the government’s multibillion dollar infrastructure budget splurge have been endorsed as priorities by Infrastructure Australia, with the Coalition instead funnelling billions of dollars into must-win marginal seats. The prime minister of Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, is due to address parliament in Honiara on Tuesday about security cooperation with China. As negotiators arrived in Istanbul for their first face-to-face peace talks in more than two weeks, both sides played down the chances of a major breakthrough and a senior US official said Putin did not appear ready to compromise. And heavy rains in NSW and Queensland have forced residents in recently flooded areas to evacuate again.

'I'd lost my marriage. I'd lost my career' (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Melbourne academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert opens up about her 804 days in a Tehran jail – and what she learnt about our ability to endure horrendous ...