Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been detained in Tehran, Italy\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. <\/p>\n
Sala was reporting in the Iranian capital when she was \u201cstopped by Tehran police\u201d on December 19, the statement said, adding that the foreign ministry \u201chas worked with the Iranian authorities to clarify the legal situation of Cecilia Sala and to verify the conditions of her detention.\u201d <\/p>\n
The reporter was visited Friday by Italian Ambassador Paola Amadei in prison \u201cto verify the conditions and state of her detention,\u201d the statement said, adding that she had previously been allowed to make two phone calls to her relatives. <\/p>\n
Sala is a reporter for the Italian daily Il Foglio, which says the journalist is being held in Tehran\u2019s Evin prison. According to Il Foglio, Cecilia was in Iran \u201con a regular visa to report on a country she knows and loves,\u201d while noting its repression of free speech and threats against journalists. <\/p>\n
The publication\u2019s editor, Claudio Cerasa, wrote in the paper on Friday: \u201cJournalism is not a crime. Let\u2019s bring Cecilia Sala home.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cShe is in Evin prison. So Tehran has chosen to challenge everything the West considers transversally untouchable: our freedom,\u201d Cerasa wrote, adding that the news outlet decided to report Sala\u2019s story \u201cafter getting assurances, from our diplomatic chiefs, that making readers aware of the news of her arrest would not slow down diplomatic efforts to bring her home.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Italian outlet Chora Media, where Sala also works, said that she had left Rome on December 12 \u201cwith a valid journalistic visa and the protections of a journalist on assignment. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe conducted several interviews and produced three episodes of the Stories podcast for Chora News,\u201d said the media outlet, adding that it is making Sala\u2019s detention public only now as her parents and Italian authorities had asked it to remain silent, hoping for the journalist\u2019s swift release. <\/p>\n
Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said Friday on X that \u201cthe entire government\u201d is working to free Sala, but that \u201cnegotiations with Iran are not resolved, unfortunately, by the involvement of Western public opinion and the force of popular outrage but only by high-level political and diplomatic action.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sala\u2019s Instagram account shows recent posts on women she met in Iran. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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