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Italian journalist Cecilia Sala detained in Iran amid rising tensions over her reporting in the country
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Cecilia Sala, a 29-year-old war correspondent and reporter, was taken into custody on December 19 while reporting in Tehran, Iran. Italy's foreign ministry is working with Iranian authorities to clarify her legal situation. Sala, who works for Il Foglio newspaper and podcast company Chora Media, has been under arrest in Iran for over a week and is being held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. She has reportedly been visited by Italian Ambassador Paola Amadei. Sala's parents have stated that she told them she was unharmed. Her detention was only made public on Friday, December 26.
Journalism is not a crime. We decided to share Cecilia's story after receiving assurances from the heads of our diplomacy that informing our readers about her arrest would not slow down the diplomatic efforts to bring her home.
Cecilia was in Iran, with a regular visa, to report on a country she knows and loves, a country in which information is suffocated by repression.
Working in coordination with the council presidency, we are engaged with Iranian authorities to clarify Sala's legal situation and verify the conditions of her detention.
Following orders from foreign minister Antonio Tajani, the embassy and consulate in Tehran are monitoring the case with utmost attention from the outset.
We immediately call on the government to take every useful initiative to shed light on this matter, to clarify the reasons for this detention and, above all, to bring Cecilia Sala back to Italy as soon as possible.
The talks with Iran will not unfortunately be resolved by involving western public opinion or with the force of popular outcry but only through high-level political and diplomatic action.
The independent voice of Cecilia has been silenced. Italy and Europe cannot tolerate this arbitrary arrest. Cecilia Sala must be immediately released.
It is the time to remember the obvious: Iran wants to use Cecilia's life to demonstrate the regime's strength.
She is very competent and very well informed — a serious journalist and not a risk taker.
She is in Evin prison. So Tehran has chosen to challenge everything the West considers transversally untouchable: our freedom.
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- 1.US Foreign Policy
- 2.Iran Foreign Policy
- 3.News media
- 4.Italian Foreign Policy
- 5.Iranian politics
- 6.Freedom of the press
- 7.Italy under Georgia Meloni
- 8.Hostage(s)
countries
- 1.Afghanistan
- 2.Switzerland
- 3.Israel
- 4.Iran, Islamic Republic of
- 5.Italy
- 6.Korea, Republic of
- 7.Syrian Arab Republic
- 8.Ukraine
- 9.United States
- 10.Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
