We don’t accept the charges,” Payne told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. in New Delhi. ADMoore-Gilbert, a Melbourne University lecturer on Middle Eastern studies, has been held in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran since September 2018. She was arrested at Tehran airport while trying to leave the country after attending an academic conference. As predicted, I have now received a conviction of 10 years in prison, and my appeal … has failed,” she wrote. ADThe letters were smuggled out of prison and published by the Center for Human Rights in Iran, the newspaper said.

Source: Washington Post January 16, 2020 23:03 UTC