Khadijeh Moghaddam Freed - on $110,000 Bail

An initial victory for the grassroots lobbying campaign:

Iran has freed a women's rights activist in her fifties whose arrest prompted a public protest letter signed by hundreds of her fellow campaigners, the Kargozaran newspaper reported on Thursday.

It said that women's rights and environmental activist Khadijeh Moghaddam, 56, had been freed on Wednesday following her arrest on suspicion of "acting against national security" on April 8.

Her bail of one billion rials (110,000 dollars) was paid by an unidentified individual...

Some 600 activists signed the letter demanding that "Khadijeh Moghaddam's illegal detention end as soon as possible," reformist media reports said earlier this week. "Who would believe Moghaddam has harmed national security or caused public offence?" the letter asked.