CNN report – Eliott C. McLaughlin – Tues 11 Nov, 2008
(CNN) — Iranian authorities have released an American-born graduate student on bail after holding her in prison for nearly a month, an Amnesty International spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Esha Momeni, 28, had been working on a project on the women’s movement in Iran when she was arrested October 15 for an alleged traffic violation, according to California State University-Northridge and Change For Equality, an Iranian women’s movement.
She had been held in solitary confinement in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, Change For Equality said. . .
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