Iran Tries French Woman

The father of a French academic on trial in Iran said Monday he hopes she can come home within weeks as the government continued efforts to secure her unconditional release.

Clotilde Reiss is one of more than 100 people in a mass trial in Iran on charges linked to postelection protests. The 24-year-old was freed on bail Sunday after a month-and-a-half in an Iranian prison, and must now stay in the French Embassy until the verdict in her case.

Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday the French government paid "around euro200,000" ($280,000) in bail, adding he hoped to get the money back.

"Of course we hope to be reimbursed because she is innocent and that will be recognized," Kouchner told LCI television, adding that he wasn't sure when the verdict would be delivered or when Reiss could return to France.

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