Cal State Student Bailed from Prison

(Tehran, Iran) Last month, California State University student Esha Momeni was arrested in Tehran after interviewing women's rights activists. Iranian police confiscated her possessions and put her in solitary confinement.

On November 10, Momeni was released on bail of $200,000 and today a judiciary official said she could leave Iran. However, according to her father Reza Momeni, the authorities have seized her travel documents.

"Esha's passports have been seized so she cannot go out," he said. "Meanwhile, it has not been determined when the trial will be held."

Momeni's lawyer said he was told by an investigator at the political and security court where the California-born student was being held that he should return on Monday to talk about his client's case.

Momeni, 28, who grew up for the most part in Iran but has been living in California for the last three years, traveled to the Islamic Republic earlier this year to research a masters' project about women's rights activists.

Esha has been charged with undermining Iran's national security and spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic.