Kylie Moore-Gilbert: British-Australian academic moved to notorious Iran desert prison

Middle East scholar, who was arrested in 2018, taken to Qarchak women's jail, one of the most hostile institutions in the country and reportedly stricken with Covid-19

A British-Australian academic serving a 10-year-prison sentence in Iran for espionage has been moved to a remote desert prison, notorious for violence and reportedly stricken with coronavirus.

Cambridge-educated Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Middle East scholar, had been held in Tehran's Evin Prison for nearly two years, before her sudden move three days ago to Qarchak women's prison, south-east of Tehran.