Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was arrested on December 19 by Iranian authorities, the day before her planned return to Italy, and is in an isolated cell in Evin prison. The announcement of his detention was made public on Friday December 27.
Cecilia Sala arrived in Iran on December 12 with a journalistic visa. She was to carry out interviews for her podcast broadcast by the Chora Media agency and was to return to Italy on December 20. She was arrested in a hotel in Tehran.
The Iranian authorities have remained silent on the arrest of the Italian journalist since December 19. Without news from him, it was the Chore Media agency which contacted the crisis unit of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, explains our correspondent in Rome, Anne Le Nir. Wishing to preserve the necessary discretion to negotiate his release, the head of diplomacy, Antonio Tajani, waited eight days to inform the media of his arrest.
The Italian ambassador was able to meet the journalist in prison to ascertain her conditions of detention, reports our correspondent in Tehran, Siavosh Ghazi. The head of Italian diplomacy told Rai News that the diplomat had spent half an hour with the journalist and that the latter is “ healthy “. The young woman, aged 29, who also works for the right-wing daily The Sheet was able to make two brief calls to his family in recent days.
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