Italian journalist Cecilia Sala arrested in Tehran

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala arrested in Tehran

The Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was arrested in Tehran, as the Italian Foreign Ministry in a Notification on Friday reported. Sala was in the Iranian capital when she was "stopped" by the Tehran police on December 19. The message also means that the Foreign Ministry "works with the Iranian authorities to clarify the legal situation of Cecilia Sala and to check the conditions of their detention."

visit the Italian ambassador

On Friday, Sala was visited in prison by the Italian ambassador Paola Amadei to check the conditions and the condition of her detention. The message mentions that Sala has previously been able to make two phone calls with their relatives. Sala is as a reporter for the Italian daily Il Foglio active, which reports that the journalist is recorded in the Evin prison in Tehran. According to IL Foglio, Cecilia was with a regular visa in Iran to report on a country that she knows and loves, and at the same time emphasized the suppression of freedom of expression and the threats to journalists.

requirement for release

The editor -in -chief of IL Foglio, Claudio Cerasa, said in the newspaper on Friday: "Journalism is not a crime. Let us bring us Cecilia Sala home." Cerasa continued: "She is in the Evin prison. Tehran has decided to challenge everything the West considers inviolable: our freedom." The news editorial team decided to report on Sala's story "after we received the assurance from our diplomatic leaders that the information about their arrest will not hinder the diplomatic efforts to return."

Information about Sala's stay

The Italian medium Chora Media also announced for the sala that they are valid on December 12th with a valid one Journalist visa and the protection of a journalist had left on report. "She led several interviews and produced three episodes of the Stories podcast for Chora News," said the message. Chora Media is only now making salas public public because her parents and the Italian authorities had asked to stay still, hoping for a rapid release of the journalist.

political measures for release

The Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on Friday on X that "the entire government" was working on freeing Sala, but "unfortunately the negotiations with Iran are not solved by the commitment of the western public and the public outcry, but only by high -ranking political and diplomatic measures." On Salas Instagram-account can be seen on women that made them in Iran.

CNN has contacted the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to obtain a comment.