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Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2008/s08110075.htm Saturday, November 15, 2008 American-born Grad Student Facing National Security Charges in Iran Freed on $200,000 Bail By Michael Ireland Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service TEHRAN, IRAN / LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (ANS) -- 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. Graduate student Esha Momeni was arrested last month in Iran and jailed after an alleged traffic violation, according to a CNN report. Momeni, 28, had been working on a project on the women's movement...

CAIRO, Egypt - An American university student in Iran to visit family and research women's rights has been arrested and held in prison for more than a week, rights group Amnesty International said. Esha Momeni, a student at California State University, Northridge, was driving on a highway in Tehran when she was stopped by authorities who said they were traffic police, the London-based Amnesty said. Iranian officials said Momeni was arrested Oct. 15 for a traffic offense. But Amnesty said in a statement Tuesday she was taken to her family's home where her computer and other materials related to her...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Officials in the United States are looking into the recent arrest of an Iranian-American student in Tehran who was working on a research project on women's rights in Iran. Esha Momeni, a graduate student at California State University-Northridge, was arrested October 15 in Tehran for unlawfully passing another vehicle while driving, according to Change For Equality, an Iranian women's movement. "We're seeking additional information about this case," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Wednesday. "We stand with all those in Iran who are working for universal human rights and justice in their countries." Momeni, who was born...