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Editor's note
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian-British academic, has been detained in Iran’s Evin prison since October 2018, serving a 10-year sentence for “espionage”.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the Australian government is “doing everything that we can do to bring her home”. Peter Greste says this is not enough.
Greste was detained for 13 months while working as a journalist in Egypt. He says his release was only possible due to the extraordinary public pressure at the time. This pushed the Australian government to speak out forcefully and publicly in his case, compelling the Egyptian authorities to act.
While his situation was clearly different from that of Moore-Gilbert, Greste says the Australian government strategy to secure the academic’s release “has failed spectacularly”.
Surely, he says, the time has come to shift gears and ramp up the public pressure on both Australian diplomats and Iranian politicians to force Tehran to release her.
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Justin Bergman
Deputy Editor: Politics + Society
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison for more than a year.
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Peter Greste, The University of Queensland
Surely the time has come to shift gears and ramp up the public pressure on both Australian diplomats and Iranian politicians to secure the academic's release.
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