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Review: The Uncaged Sky – Kylie Moore-Gilbert (Ultimo)
The brutal 804-day incarceration of Kylie Moore-Gilbert in Iran on fictitious
charges was an appalling travesty. It remains inexplicable.
Moore-Gilbert is an Australian-British academic who was conducting field
research on Bahranian exiles in Iran when she was suddenly detained by the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, at the airport gate in Tehran. It seems her
arrest was opportunistic. Unsubstantiated charges were made that she spied for
MI6, along with unproven allegations that her husband was linked to Israel’s
Mossad.
Subsequent attempts to lure her Russian-Israeli husband to Iran and turn
Moore-Gilbert into a spy for the state were so amateurish and preposterous, one
is left with the impression that her captors were soon as perplexed by her
arrest as she was. Were they just religious zealots driven by an irrational
hatred and suspicion of all things Western?
They must have known in advance that, according to their own metrics, she was a
low value target. It is absurd to think MI6 or any spy service would send
someone to Iran who didn’t speak Farsi. It also appears that they had not
developed any plans about what to do with her once she was under their control.
This uncertainty and their inability to provide Moore-Gilbert with plausible
answers to her questions significantly contributed to her suffering, initially
in solitary confinement in 2A at Evin prison, later at the remote desert prison
Qarchak."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
