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On September 12 2018 BritishAustralian academic Kylie MooreGilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Irans feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Irans most notorious judge Dr MooreGilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison
Incarcerated in Tehrans Evin and Qarchak prisons for 804 days this is the full and gripping account of her harrowing ordeal Held in a filthy solitary confinement cell for months and subjected to relentless interrogation Kylie was pushed to the limits of her endurance by extreme physical and psychological deprivation
Kylies only lifeline was the covert friendships she made with other prisoners inside the Revolutionary Guards maximumsecurity compound where she had been disappeared communicating in great danger through the air vents between cells and by hiding secret letters in hava khori the narrow outdoor balcony where she was led blindfolded for a solitary hour each day
Cut off from the outside world Kylie realised she alone had the power to change the dynamics of her incarceration To survive she began to fight back adopting a strategy of resistance with her captors Multiple hunger strikes letters smuggled to the media coordinated protests with other prisoners and a daring escape attempt led to her transfer to the isolated desert prison Qarchak to live among convicted criminals
On November 25 2020 after more than two years of struggle Kylie was finally released in a high stakes threenation prisoner swap deal orchestrated by the Australian government laying bare the complex game of global politics in which she had become a valuable pawn
Written with extraordinary insight and vivid immediacy The Uncaged Sky is Kylie MooreGilberts remarkable story of courage and resilience and a powerful meditation on hope solidarity and what it means to be free
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