An Australian-British academic who was locked up in Iran's notorious Evin prison on trumped up espionage charges has revealed Tehran is continuing to spy on her as she attempts to rebuild her life in Australia.
After 804 days in the Iranian jail, Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s release should have marked the end of her trauma. But when she returned to her homeland in a prisoner swap in November 2020, the harassment and the hacking continued.
Despite fruitless and relentless questioning behind bars, elements of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps remain convinced that Dr Moore-Gilbert is a “dangerous Zionist spy”.
She was sentenced to 10 years in jail — the standard punishment for dual-citizen prisoners convicted on fabricated security charges — and spent months in solitary confinement.
Now, as an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime and champion of the prisoners she left behind, Dr Moore-Gilbert believes Iran’s intelligence services are continuing to track her activities more than 12,000 kilometres away in Melbourne.
“They're definitely keeping tabs on me, I've been hacked a few times,” she told The National. “They see me now as somebody who's plugged into the network of anti-regime Iranians outside of the country and want to monitor what I'm doing and who I'm talking to.”
She is deliberately vague about details but says she sent some money to a group of people in Iran who had asked for her help to leave the country. Their attempts were thwarted, she believes, because the authorities hacked and read the group’s messages that revealed too much of their plans.
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