Iranian state media outlets are reporting Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been released from prison.
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Ms Moore-Gilbert, a British-Australian academic who has been detained in Iran for more than two years was reportedly released in exchange for three Iranians held abroad.
Ms Moore-Gilbert was a Melbourne University lecturer on Middle Eastern studies when she was sent to Tehran's Evin Prison in September 2018 and sentenced to 10 years on espionage charges.
It was not immediately clear when Moore-Gilbert would arrive back in Australia.
Video aired on state TV showed her wearing a grey head covering and sitting at what appeared to be a greeting room in one of Tehran's airports.
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The footage showed three men with Iranian flags over their shoulders — those freed in exchange for her being released.
State TV earlier described them as "economic activists," without elaborating.
International pressure on Iran to secure her release has escalated in recent months following reports that her health was deteriorating during long stretches of solitary confinement and that she had been transferred to the notorious Qarchak Prison, east of Tehran.
She is one of several Westerners held in Iran on internationally criticised espionage charges that their families and rights groups say are unfounded.
The report offered no further details beyond saying that the three Iranians released in the swap had been detained for trying to bypass sanctions.
Ms Moore-Gilbert has previously gone on hunger strikes and pleaded for the Australian Government to do more to free her.
Those pleas included writing to Prime Minister Scott Morrison that she had been subjected to "grievous violations" of her rights, including psychological torture and solitary confinement.
Her detention has further strained relations between Iran and the West, which reached a fever pitch earlier this year following the American killing of a top Iranian general in Baghdad and retaliatory Iranian strikes on a US military base.
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