Family of pedestrian-American women who were jailed in Iran for more than a year asked the Iranian authorities to lower the bail requirement is worth 500 thousand dollars to release him.Lawyers for Sarah Shourd said Monday that the Swiss diplomats, who handles U.S. interests in Iran, asked that bail was abolished or reduced.
Iran announced Sunday that Shourd likely will be freed for medical reasons, but still will face justice. Family Shourd said he needed medical treatment for a lump in the chest and cervical cells pre-cancerous.
Iranian authorities arrested Shourd and two other Americans, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, in July last year after saying they crossed into Iranian territory from northern Iraq.
Pedestrians are then subject to allegations of spy work and go illegally, though they insisted they were not spies and crossed the border inadvertently.