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by JUSTIN LEES
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert has revealed the "psychological torture" she endured as a prisoner of the Iranians turned her "completely crazy" - but accessing her intense inner anger became her secret survival weapon.
The Australian academic, who was held for 804 days on trumped-up spying charges, has given candid details of the harrowing ordeal in her first interview since being freed late last year.
The torment began immediately after Dr Moore-Gilbert's capture in Tehran in September 2018, as her captors tried to "break" her with four weeks of brutal solitary confinement in a tiny, freezing cell with no daylight, no respite or distractions, the lights on around the clock and constant noise.