Kylie Moore-Gilbert is a lecturer at Melbourne University. (AFP) January 22, 2020 An Australian-British academic jailed in Iran for espionage rejected Tehran’s offer to work as a spy, according to letters she smuggled out of prison published in British media Tuesday. Kylie Moore-Gilbert wrote that the first 10 months she spent in an [...]
Kylie Moore-Gilbert is a lecturer at Melbourne University. (AFP) December 27, 2019 Two foreign academics detained in Iran have begun a hunger strike in protest against their incarceration, according to a letter published by their supporters. Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah and British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert said in the letter dated Dec. 24 they [...]
Two Australians detained in Iran have been named as Mark Firkin and Jolie King, with media reporting that the travel bloggers were arrested in July during their Asian trip. (Instagram) October 21, 2019 Acting on advice from the government, Australian universities have warned academics not to travel to Iran, after three Australians were [...]
Australians bloggers, Mark Firkin and Jolie King, were detained in Iran, they were arrested in July during their Asian trip. (Instagram) October 5, 2019 An Australian-British blogger and her fiancé said Saturday they were “extremely happy and relieved” to be reunited with their loved ones after being freed from a three-month detention in Iran. [...]
Two Australians detained in Iran have been named as Mark Firkin and Jolie King, with media reporting that the travel bloggers were arrested in July during their Asian trip. (Instagram) September 17, 2019 Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday confirmed the detention of three Australian citizens that was announced last week by the Australian government, [...]
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a lecturer at Melbourne University. (AFP) September 14, 2019 A British-Australian woman jailed in Iran has been identified as Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a specialist in Middle East politics at the University of Melbourne. The academic’s family issued a statement through the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade saying they were in [...]
Two Australians detained in Iran have been named as Mark Firkin and Jolie King, with media reporting that the travel bloggers were arrested in July during their Asian trip. (Instagram) September 12, 2019 Two Australians detained in Iran were named on Thursday as a travel-blogging couple who were arrested while making an overland [...]
A prison guard stands along a corridor in Tehran’s Evin prison on June 13, 2006. (Reuters) September 11, 2019 The Australian government on Wednesday said three citizens had been detained in Iran, the latest in a series of Westerners to be seized by authorities in Tehran. “The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade [...]
Kurdish-Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani. (Getty) August 14, 2019 Kurdish-Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani won yet another Australian literary award for his autobiography, “No Friend but the Mountains”, however, he was not able to receive the award because he is detained on Manus Island. Australia’s State Library of New South Wales said the autobiography won [...]
A report says the Feb. 8 hack of the Australian Parliament "is a part of a multi-year cyberespionage campaign" by an Iranian-backed hacking group they call Iridium.. (Shutterstock) By Ken Dilanian March 2, 2019 The Iranian-backed hackers who stole personal data on Australian lawmakers earlier this year are the same group that attacked [...]
