Iran Prisoner Returns to LA

A graduate student imprisoned for a month in Iran and barred from leaving the country for nearly a year has returned to Los Angeles.

Esha Momeni, 29, was charged with acting against Iran's national security and held mainly in solitary confinement after conducting research on the Iranian women's rights movement for her thesis at California State University, Northridge.

In a phone interview with The Associated Press on Friday, Momeni said she arrived in Los Angeles this week and, once her exhaustion passes, she wants to continue working on Iranian rights issues.

Momeni's arrest came on Oct. 15, after she was pulled over by armed intelligence agents and taken to her family's Tehran home, where her thesis research was confiscated. Her computer and video interviews with activists were among the things taken by the agents.

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