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Academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert arrived in Australia today after more than two years in an Iranian prison, the Associated Press (AP) news agency reported.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert was met by public health officials and members of the Australian Defense Force after disembarking from a plane at Canberra airport.
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the scholar should first do a local quarantine.
The British-Australian academic from the University of Melbourne was released after 804 days in jail in Iran on suspicion of spying.
According to the AP, Kylie Moore-Gilbert was released in exchange for three Iranians detained in Thailand.
The Australian government denied on Thursday that it had swapped Iranian prisoners for the release Wednesday of Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert after spending two years in Iranian prisons.
Iranian state television reported Wednesday that Moore-Gilbert was replaced by three Iranian citizens who were imprisoned abroad, described by the press as “Iranian economic activists arrested for trying to evade sanctions” imposed on Tehran.
Moore-Gilbert, a specialist in Islamic studies, was detained in Iran in September 2018, but it was only a year after her plight was made public.
The academic from the University of Melbourne, Australia, denounced in letters that she was abused and offered by Tehran to work as a spy, having been sentenced in 2019 to 10 years in prison for espionage.
In 2019, the Canberra government released Iranian student Reza Dehabashi, who was detained for attempting to purchase and export products to Iran.
Dehabashi’s release coincided with the release of Australian-British blogger Jolie King and boyfriend Mark Firkin, who were detained in Tehran.
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