Iran swaps jailed British-Australian academic with Iranians held abroad - TV


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  • Thursday, 26 Nov 2020

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has exchanged a jailed British-Australian academic, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, with three Iranians who had been detained abroad, Iran's state broadcaster IRIB reported on Wednesday.

Moore-Gilbert, a specialist in Middle East politics at the University of Melbourne, was detained in Iran in September, 2018 and had been serving a 10-year sentence for espionage.

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