Iran on Wednesday released Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in September 2018. Moore-Gilberts was serving a 10-year prison sentence for alleged espionage. News of the exchange was first published by state broadcaster IRIB news.
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"A businessman and two [other] Iranian citizens who were detained abroad on baseless charges were exchanged for dual-national spy Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who worked for the Zionist regime," it said.
A lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, Moore-Gilbert was arrested at a Tehran airport in September 2018 after attending an academic conference in central Iran. She has always denied the charges against her.
