A reformist former Vice-President accused of fomenting street unrest after Iran's June election has been released on bail of about $700 000, the judiciary said, after reports he had been sentenced to six years in jail.

According to a report in The New York Times, the official IRNA News Agency quoted Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as saying Mohammad Ali Abtahi was freed 'temporarily'. Under Iranian law, people sentenced to jail can post bail and be out of prison while they are appealing. Abtahi 'was temporarily released after the completion of the trial, issuing of the verdict and collection of bail amounting to about $700 000,' the report quotes Jafari Dolatabadi as saying.
Full report in The New York Times