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A number of Australians will remain separated from their families this Christmas, as they face unknown fates in prisons and detention centres across the world.
She served two years and three months of a 10-year prison sentence after being accused of spying by the Iranian government - allegations she steadfastly denies.
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Iranian authorities claimed three of the country s citizens were released in exchange for Dr Gilbert-Moore, but the Australian Government has refused to confirm what, if any, arrangements led to her release.
But while Dr Gilbert-Moore is now able to spend Christmas with her loved ones, others are still waiting to learn their fate.
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Until almost five months ago, Lukman Thalib was an accomplished public health professor working passionately to fight the coronavirus pandemic in Qatar.
But, according to his daughter Maryam Talib, that all changed on the afternoon of 27 July when at least six people in plain clothes barged into his security complex - “kidnapping style” - and arrested Professor Thalib, 58, and his son, Ismail Talib, 24.
“No words, no paper, no charge, nothing was presented,” she told SBS News from Turkey.
Ms Talib’s mother and younger sister were also at the complex when the arrests took place.
“It shook us to our core … we’ve got absolutely no idea what’s been going on. Why on earth things have unfolded the way they are. I’m just hoping it’s a big mistake.”
Australian professor and son detained in Qatar for five months without charge Christopher Knaus An Australian public health professor and his son have been detained in Qatar for almost five months without charge, and are receiving consular assistance from the Australian embassy.
Australian citizens Prof Lukman Thalib, 58, and his son Ismail Talib, 24, were arrested at their home in Doha by local authorities on 27 July, and are being kept at an undisclosed location.
The arrests came roughly three months before the United States named another of Prof Thalib’s sons, who lives in Australia, as an alleged “financial facilitator” of al-Qaida.