Kylie Moore-Gilbert says Australian government should have gone public with her case earlier

British-Australian academic also talks about impact of solitary confinement, saying it was like a prolonged anxiety attack'

Kylie Moore-Gilbert believes she never would have been sentenced to 10 years jail on spying charges in Iran if the Australian government had gone public with her case earlier to pressure Tehran.

The British-Australian academic - who was released after a little more than two years in a complex prisoner swap involving four countries - said the Australian government's strategy of quiet diplomacy", deliberately shielding her case from the media, while pursuing negotiations with Iran's government, was flawed.