The father of Clotilde Reiss, the young French lecturer tried by an Iranian court for participating in post-electoral protests, says he expects his daughter to be released shortly on bail but admits he cannot be certain.

“All of the required documents were made available to Iranian authorities yesterday. Her release is a purely technical question”, Remi Reiss said. 

The French ministry of foreign affairs refused to confirm or comment on the statement, stating simply that France would continue to ask for the young woman’s release until it is granted.

Remi Reiss also confirmed that France would pay "a few hundred thousand dollars" in bail to the Iranian authorities so that his daughter can await her verdict at the French embassy in Tehran, rather than in prison.

Reiss, 24, has been detained since July 1. She was among those tried on charges related to huge protests that swept across Iran after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in June.

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She was accused of spying and taking part in a Western plot to destabilise the government of the Islamic republic.

Iran has put 110 protesters on trial for allegedly participating in the unrest. These include top reformists as well as Reiss, local French embassy employee Nazak Afshar and a local employee of the British embassy .

Afshar, a French-Iranian woman, was freed from prison on Tuesday.