Iran returns passport to radio reporter

An American-Iranian reporter, Parnaz Azima, has been given her passport back after months of being prevented from leaving Tehran. Her employer, the Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi who heads the Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights, said: "She is free to leave the country if she wants." Azima, who works for a US-funded radio station in Prague, arrived in Iran in January. She was briefly detained for cooperating with "anti-revolutionary" media, but freed on bail. (Via Boston Globe/Reuters)