Cecilia Sala, who works for Il Foglio, was arrested in Tehran earlier than Christmas whereas on a reporting journey and is now being held in Evin jail.
The Italian newspaper Il Foglio is asking on authorities to assist deliver dwelling certainly one of its journalists who was detained in Iran simply earlier than Christmas.
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was arrested in Tehran simply someday after an Iranian citizen was arrested in Italy for drone trafficking. The 38-year-old man is now being processed for extradition to the US.
Sala was detained whereas on a reporting journey within the Iranian capital, throughout which she held an interview with a former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
She additionally not too long ago printed a podcast episode with Zeinab Musavi, an Iranian comic who has criticised the necessary hijab in her content material, in response to media studies.
In a press release launched on Friday, Italian media reported that Sala was taken to Tehran’s Evin Jail, infamous for holding dissidents, and has been in solitary confinement for over every week.
“Sala was arrested in Tehran on Thursday… and has been in jail since, in solitary confinement. The explanation for her unjustifiable arrest has but to be formally acknowledged,” the assertion learn.
“We’re solely sharing this distressing information now as a result of Italian authorities and Cecilia’s dad and mom requested we stay silent, hoping this may facilitate a swift launch, which sadly has not occurred but.”
Sala had departed Rome on 12 December with a sound journalistic visa and official ensures for overseas correspondents.
The next day she posted on X a collection of pictures of ladies in Tehran.
She was scheduled to return to Rome final Friday however stopped responding to messages on the morning of 19 December.
She is now being held within the metropolis’s Evin jail the place she is doing ‘nicely’, in response to Italy’s ambassador to Iran who visited her in jail.
Sala has reportedly been allowed two cellphone calls along with her kinfolk since her detention.
“We do not know something in regards to the timings and it is not possible to make predictions. What’s vital is to be prudent, cautious, clever and to inform what we all know, what occurred, with out letting our guard down, stopping the story from ending up in oblivion quickly. As a result of the lifetime of an individual is at stake who, for inexplicable and mischievous causes, is in one of the vital dramatic and harmful prisons on the earth,” mentioned Claudio Cerasa, Editor-in-chief of Italy’s day by day newspaper Il Foglio.
“Cecilia had a daily visa in Iran. It wasn’t undercover. Cecilia isn’t an adventurer. She’s a reliable, good, ready and prudent journalist.”
Italy’s overseas ministry has mentioned it’s working with the Iranian authorities to ‘make clear Sala’s authorized scenario and the situations of her detention’.
ADVERTISEMENTThe European Union has additionally mentioned it’s following the scenario intently.
Iran has not but acknowledged detaining Sala however it will possibly take weeks earlier than authorities announce such arrests.
