The Uncaged Sky

My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison

De: Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Narrado por: Kylie Moore-Gilbert

On 12th September 2018, British Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran’s most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Incarcerated in Tehran’s 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.

Kylie’s only lifeline was the covert friendships she made with other prisoners inside the Revolutionary Guards’ maximum-security 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, co-ordinated 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 25th November 2020, after more than two years of struggle, Kylie was finally released in a high-stakes three-nation 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 Moore-Gilbert’s remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a powerful meditation on hope, solidarity and what it means to be free.

©2022 Kylie Moore-Gilbert (P)2022 W F Howes

Thank you Kylie, Great book!

Thank you, Kylie,
I also watch Kylie’s interviews and other online events that she is present.
I can’t m find words to apologize for what Islamic Republic has done to her. I’m sure there are many, many of Iranian have the same feelings and we are very sad and sorry in this regard.
The Uncaged Sky is a great source for freedom, freedom for any nations under the dictatorship!
🙏❤️🙏❤️

Amazing, powerful, brave

I started reading this book because I wondered how the human mind could deal with this type of situation. I expected the sadness and pain but didn’t expect the generosity and love and support from other prisoners. Just an amazing story. So strong, so brave, What happened to you doesn’t define you Kylie. You giving a voice to all those women who don’t have a voice, that’s what defines you!

One of the best prison stories I’ve read/listened

Ms. Moore-Gilbert is an excellent story teller and most importantly a rebel! As an ex-prisoner myself I laughed out loud when she’s constantly putting up resistance which without doubt took the Iranians by surprise. The experience, of course, must’ve felt unbearable at times but the story shows that she adapted very quickly to the situation. I also liked that she chose to read it herself!

Uncaged sky

I enjoyed this book. Admire her strength and her fair mind even at the most difficult times in her life. I cried at cruelty she endured. Thank you for sharing your story in such a profound manner
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I hope everyone read this

I was so deeply impacted by this book as an Iranian national who understands sentence by sentence the experience that Dr. Moore-Gilbert went through. I strongly recommend this book and I would love to see Kylie going on more interviews and podcasts to share more about her 804 days in captivity.