(CNN) -- A prosecutor in Tehran has announced Iran's readiness for the "conditional release" of one of three U.S. citizens detained there, state media reported Sunday.
The official Islamic Republic News Agency reported that detained American Sarah Shourd will be released if bail for her is submitted to the Iranian Judiciary.
State-run Press TV said Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced the country's "readiness for the conditional release of one of the three U.S. citizens arrested for illegally entering the country".
Dolatabadi said the bail amount for Shourd had been set at about $500,000 worth of rials, according to IRNA.
A judge decided to allow Shourd to be released on bail because of an ailment, Dolatabadi said, according to IRNA.
Shourd had a pre-existing gynecological problem, but her famiily says she now also has a lump in her breast, according to Masoud Shafili, an attorney representing the three hikers.
She still could be charged, and authorities would still expect her to come back to Iran for a trial. But other foreigners who have been released on bail after imprisonment in Iran have left the country and not come back.
Iranian officials said Thursday that Shourd, one of three American hikers held in Iran for more than a year, would be released this weekend.
But Friday, prosecutors said the release had been "canceled" because the judicial process had not been completed.
On Saturday, Shafili said he was "upset" that Shourd's planned release had been canceled and said her family's emotions were "being abused".
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