Iranian-British woman jailed for attending Iran volleyball match bailed An Iranian-British woman jailed for trying to attend a men's volleyball game in Iran has been released on bail, her family has said. Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, (pictured above) was found guilty last month of "propagating against the ruling system" and received the custodial sentence. She was detained in June at a Tehran stadium after trying to attend a men's volleyball match between Iran and Italy. Her brother, Iman Ghavami, 28, told the Press Association: "She has been bailed until her court appeal, when she hopes to be vindicated. She was bailed for £20,000 and now wants to spend time with her family. Ghavami, from Shepherd's Bush in west London, was taking part in a protest against a ban on women in Iran attending public sporting events in the company of men when she was arrested. Iran banned women from volleyball games in 2012, extending a long-standing ban on their attending football matches. A post on a Facebook page set up by Ghavami's family said: "Ghoncheh returned home from prison. We picked her up at 3pm from Qarchak prison. She is bailed out till her court of appeal. We thank all of you that stayed with us and I hope the court accept the complete innocence of my daughter. Thank god. Her mother, Susan Moshtaghian, wrote on Saturday that Ghavami had been sentenced to one year in prison. In an emotional message, she said: "Your dad was shown the verdict today. After all these going back and forth and all the troubles we were given in the past month, they finally sentenced you to one year for a crime you never committed. I cannot believe one year imprisonment for volleyball protest which they said had nothing to do with your charges. More than 728,000 supporters signed an online petition calling for Ghavami's release. Ghavami was held for a few hours following her arrest in June and then released only to be detained again a few days later. She stood trial last month and her family claimed that she was kept in solitary confinement. The Iranian authorities are not believed to have released details of Ghavami's verdict publicly. In an open letter to Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, 300 Iranian human and civil rights activists complained about the "unbearable conditions" she was kept in. The British foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, raised her case with the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, at talks at the UN in New York in September.