Haleh Esfandiari has been allowed to leave Iran and is now recuperating in Austria with her family.  We are deeply glad that she is free.  The Washington Post carries an account of her imprisonment here.  News reports also indicate that Parnaz Azima has been told that she will be allowed to leave Iran.

We are still awaiting Kian’s release from prison.  According to the International Herald Tribune:

The other scholar who was arrested with Esfandiari in May, Kian Tajbakhsh, an urban planner with ties to the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation, was still being held despite promises of his release to his family.

“There is no news about his release yet,” said his wife, Bahar Malek. “Every time I have asked the judge, he told me in a week, but I am still waiting.”

Today, Judge Hossein Haddad told the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB that Kian would be released on bail when the “investigation” was complete.  We have no information on when this might be.  There is also no word about the status of the fourth detainee, Ali Shakeri.