In 2018 Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in an Iranian jail. Last week, she was released in a diplomatically fraught prisoner swap involving four different countries. Today, Jonathan Pearlman on what her freedom means for the other foreign citizens still jailed in Iran.

Guest: World editor for The Saturday Paper Jonathan Pearlman.

Background reading: The jailing of Kylie Moore-Gilbert in Iran in The Saturday Paper

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Hostage diplomacy: Freeing Kylie Moore-Gilbert