I was imprisoned because of my husband… Husband’winds’ with his wife professor

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Ph.D. in Middle East Politics, University of Melbourne. AFP=Yonhap News

A British Australian scholar who returned to Australia after flocking as a spy in Iran and returned to Australia to file a divorce lawsuit against her husband is controversial, the British The Times and the Australian Herald Sun reported on the 7th (local time).

According to local media, Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, 33, from Melbourne University in Australia recently filed a divorce lawsuit against Russian-Israeli husband Ruslan Hodrov, 31. Dr. Moore-Gilbert is an expert in Middle East politics and is also well-known in Australia as the cousin of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks.

Dr. Moore-Gilbert was detained at Tehran Airport after attending a seminar in Iran in September 2018. Iranian authorities suspect that Dr. Moore-Gilbert’s husband Hodorov was an Israeli spy, and Dr. Moore-Gilbert was arrested on the same charges. Later, Dr. Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison at trial.

Even later, Dr. Moore-Gilbert protected her husband in a way that fiercely resisted Iranian authorities’ attempts to bring Hodrov into Iran, local media reported.

Professor Kylie Baxter, University of Melbourne. [사진 멜버른대 홈페이지]

Despite his wife’s care, her husband Hodorov betrayed Dr. Moore-Gilbert. According to local media reports based on testimonies from nearby acquaintances, husband Hodorov developed into a romantic relationship with Professor Kyle Baxter, 41, who was his wife’s doctoral supervisor about a year after his wife was imprisoned in Iran.

Dr. Moore-Gilbert, who was released after 804 days of imprisonment in Iran in November last year, appears to have decided to divorce after returning to his country because of her husband’s affair, local media reported.

A spokesman for the University of Melbourne told The Daily Mail, “I’m not going to comment on the doctor’s private life,” he said. “Our priority is his health. We look forward to returning to college when he is ready.”

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