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(From left) Australian-Chinese journalist Cheng Lei, Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert and Australian economist Sean Turnell co-founded the Australian Wrongful and Arbitrary Detention Alliance.
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SYDNEY – Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian-British academic specialising in the Middle East, was on a study trip to Iran in 2018 when she was suddenly arrested and detained on charges of espionage, which she has always denied.
She spent 804 days in prison before she was eventually released in exchange for three convicted Iranians
