Imagine being locked-up in an Iranian prison for more than two years – when you’re innocent.

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian expert on Islam, went to Iran in late August 2018 to attend a seminar.

Three weeks later, as she checked-in at Tehran Airport to return home, she was arrested.   Iranian authorities accused her of being a spy and she was jailed for 10 years, thrown into a high-security prison run by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. 

Kylie joins us to tell us how she survived, what it was like in solitary confinement in a two-by-two metre cell….and how her family and friends told the world of her plight, eventually securing her release.  Her new book is called ‘The Uncaged Sky’

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