Friends, colleagues and supporters of Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert are calling for more to be done to secure her release on the second anniversary of her arrest in Iran.
Friends and colleagues of Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert have held a vigil in Sydney to mark the two-year anniversary of her detention.
"It's a way to acknowledge the tragic fate of what's happened to Kylie, while still being respectful to family and the government's quiet diplomacy approach," said Mark Isaacs, president of freedom of speech group PEN Sydney, who organised the vigil. A day earlier, people around Australia and the United Kingdom, where Dr Moore-Gilbert is also a citizen, marked the anniversary by participating in a"Run for Kylie" campaign.
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