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Podcast: The Grapevine
Episode: Urgent calls to ditch the diplomatic strategy as Kylie Moore-Gilbert is transferred to Iran's infamous Qarchak women's prison
Description: On this episode of The Grapevine, Dr Jessie Moritz, Lecturer in Middle East Studies, at ANU talks to Dylan and Kulja about her article in The Conversation that called for the Australia to do more to aid her friend and colleague Kylie Moore-Gilbert, whose condition is rapidly deteriorating. The Australian academic was arrested by the Iranian government and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in September 2018 for allegations of spying and has since suffered intolerable conditions without appeal.Then, award winning Australian author Christos Tsiolkas makes his debut on The Grapevine to discuss some of his essays that have recent...