For 705 days this Australian woman has been ‘forgotten’ in an Iranian prison

Three weeks later she was stopped from flying back to Melbourne by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after one of the people she interviewed reported her as suspicious.

Since then she’s been secretly tried and convicted of espionage and is facing a 10-year prison sentence in Iranian prisons.

Kylie Moore-Gilbert was meant to fly home to Melbourne, instead she was sent to jail. Picture: Australian Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade

It’s been more than 700 days since she was arrested and the British-Australian dual national’s friends and colleagues are tired of waiting for the “quiet diplomacy” of the Australian government to secure her release.

Letters smuggled out of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison earlier this year “sent a really clear message that Kylie felt she was abandoned and she wanted more to be done for her,” Deakin University research fellow Dara Conduit told news.com.au.

“She felt she’d been abandoned or forgotten, which she certainly hasn’t been, not by her colleagues and friends,” Dr Conduit said.

She and other academics started talking about ways to keep Kylie’s imprisonment on the agenda earlier this year.

They’ve now begun a campaign hoping to speed up Kylie’s release.

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