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    Re: Craig Murray: How UK endangers Iranian-British woman jailed in Iran Archived Message

    Posted by Mary on September 15, 2019, 1:10 pm, in reply to "Craig Murray: How UK endangers Iranian-British woman jailed in Iran"

    Apart from the Cameron bilge, the S Times is going large on Kylie (Moore-Gilbert) today. Iran is the demon of course and is also being held responsible for the attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil installations. So helpful to the Pompeo faction.

    Third Iran ‘hostage’ is university lecturer Kylie Moore‑Gilbert
    A Cambridge‑educated specialist in Middle East politics has been held for a year in solitary confinement in Tehran
    Shanti Das and Sian Griffiths
    September 15 2019, 12:01am,

    Moore-Gilbert: held since 2018
    A woman jailed in Iran has been identified as a Cambridge-educated university lecturer who has done extensive research on Middle Eastern politics and authoritarian regimes.

    Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a scholar of Islamic studies who lectures at Melbourne University, has been held in solitary confinement at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.

    Moore-Gilbert was the third foreign national revealed last week to be imprisoned in Iran. The case came to light along with those of another British-Australian woman, Jolie King, a travel blogger, and her Australian boyfriend Mark Firkin, who have been held for 10 weeks. They are believed to have been arrested for flying a drone without a licence.

    Moore-Gilbert was named yesterday in a statement released by her family through the Australian government. It… paywall

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/third-iran-hostage-is-university-lecturer-kylie-moore-gilbert-05s7chn2n

    They also have this piece by John Simpson. The same Simpson as the BBC worthy??

    Julian Assange denied bail over ‘history of absconding’
    John Simpson
    September 14 2019, 12:01am,

    Julian Assange spent nearly seven years in the Ecuadorean embassy in London

    Julian Assange has been told that he will stay in prison after the custody period finishes on his present jail term because of his “history of absconding”.

    The Wikileaks founder, 48, was jailed for breaching bail conditions by seeking refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in Knightsbridge, central London, for nearly seven years.

    Assange had been wanted for questioning in Sweden on allegations of rape and sexual assault and lost his appeal against extradition at every level of the British judicial system. He maintained throughout his time at the embassy that he was wanted in the US and that a secret sealed indictment awaited him in relation to alleged crimes committed while leaking hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents.

    An indictment was unsealed when…


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