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Reputable professor transferred to one of the worst prisons in the world: 'I have lost all hope ...'
Horrible stories of torture and rape come from prison. 'I feel abandoned. I'm not a spy. I want to live as a free woman '
Writes: Jutarnji.hrPosted: July 28, 2020 10:52 am
Kyle Moore-Gilbert before his 2018 arrest
Kyle Moore-Gilbert before his 2018 arrest
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A British-Australian academic professor who is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Iran for espionage has been transferred to a remote infamous desert prison, reports the Guardian.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert , a Middle East expert with a degree from Cambridge University, was housed for nearly two years in Tehran’s Evin prison and then transferred to Qarchak Women’s Prison, southeast of the capital.
Moore-Gilbert said she felt isolated and had lost all hope, according to Reza Khandana , the wife of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh .
- I can't eat anything. I feel very hopeless. I don't have a phone card to call. I asked prison officials to give it to me, but they didn’t. The last time I was able to call my parents was about a month ago, ”Moore Glibert said in a phone call with Khandan.
The isolated and overcrowded Qarchak prison, to which she will be transferred, has one of the worst reputations in the country. Last month, the U.S. State Department said Qarchaku violence, torture and rape, and a lack of medical services were a regular occurrence.
It is believed that the coronavirus also broke into a prison where social distancing is impossible, and according to the same allegations, there is a lack of basic hygiene products such as soap.
The prison, like its former Evin, is controlled by an elite military organization, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. It houses prisoners who have committed the most serious crimes, as well as political prisoners.
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Moore-Gilbert, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Melbourne, was arrested in September 2018 after being invited to give a speech at an academic conference in the city of Qom. Conference associates and the topic of interviews for her academic work marked her as "suspicious" of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and she was arrested at Tehran airport while preparing to fly out of the country.
She was sentenced in a secret trial to 10 years in prison on charges of espionage. Evidence of the alleged crimes she committed was never made public. Moore-Gilbert denies all the allegations, and the Australian government rejects them as unfounded and politically motivated.
Earlier this year, a series of her smuggled letters were published detailing life in prison involving months of solitary confinement and a lack of food, medicine and money to buy personal belongings.
"I feel abandoned and forgotten ... I am an innocent victim," she wrote.
She said she rejected the offer to spy on the Iranian government, even though she would be released from prison at the time.
- I'm not a spy. I have never been a spy and have no interest in working for a spy organization in any country. When I leave Iran, I want to be a free woman and live a free life, not under the shadow of extortion and threats - she said.
Iran has temporarily released more than 100,000 prisoners due to the danger of the spread of coronavirus in overcrowded prisons, but Moore-Gilbert is not among those released.
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