Hostage diplomacy: Freeing Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Dec 01, 2020•16 min
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Episode description
In 2018 Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in an Iranian jail. Last week, she was released in a diplomatically fraught prisoner swap involving four different countries. Today, Jonathan Pearlman on what her freedom means for the other foreign citizens still jailed in Iran.
Guest: World editor for The Saturday Paper Jonathan Pearlman.
Background reading: The jailing of Kylie Moore-Gilbert in Iran in The Saturday Paper
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