Iranian-US student Esha Momeni who had been held on security charges in Tehran since mid-October was released on bail on Tuesday, her father told AFP.
“She was released on Tuesday from Evin prison after paying bail of some two billion rials (196,000 dollars),” Gholam Reza Momeni said.
“They told us that they are preparing the paperwork for her to leave Iran soon,” he said by telephone, declining to elaborate.
According to the Iranian judiciary, Momeni is accused of security offences and her case is under preliminary investigation.
In late October, Momeni’s lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah told AFP she was arrested on October 15 for involvement with a women’s rights equality campaign.
Dadkhah added that Momeni, a graduate student at the Northridge campus of California State University, had travelled to Iran to do research for her thesis on women’s rights, and that she holds both Iranian and US nationality.
Last week, Momeni’s father was quoted as saying: “I hope that the Islamic republic’s authorities judge her case appropriately with mercy.”
He also expressed disapproval of his daughter’s “illegal activities.”
Over the past year, Iran has arrested several women who backed a One-Million-Signature campaign, launched two years ago to call for changes to Iranian laws deemed discriminatory to women.
The United States has asked Switzerland, which represents US interests in Tehran, to find out more about the case against Momeni.
Iran does not recognise dual nationality and has in past said the arrest of US-Iranian citizens is an internal matter.
In May 2007, US-Iranian academics Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh along with California-based peace activist Ali Shakeri were arrested and held for more than 100 days, also on suspicion of causing harm to national security.
