Freed U.S. female hiker leaves Iran

TEHRAN, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- One of the three detained （被扣留的）U.S. hikers（徒步旅行者） left Iran on Tuesday evening after being released on bail¹ of 500,000 U.S. dollars few hours earlier.

Xinhua reporter was told in Tehran's Mehrabad Airport that the female hiker Sarah Shourd left Iran for Oman on Tuesday evening.

"My client's mother has already travelled to Oman（阿曼） and now she is there," waiting for her daughter's arrival, said Masoud Shafiei, the Iranian lawyer of the three detained U. S. nationals.

The state-run IRNA news agency said that according to Tehran prosecutor's office, the release of the American female was made upon an order issued after the receipt of a bank guarantee on the sum of the bail.

But the tribunal has extended detention² of the other two Americans, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, for another two months, Shafiei told the semi-official ISNA news agency.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)
 

1 bail   

v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人

参考例句：

• One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
• She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。

2 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。