Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, arrested in Iran when she was heading to the airport to return to her country

The Italian journalist Cecilia Sala She was arrested on December 19 in Tehran, while she was heading to the airport to return to Italy, the Italian Foreign Ministry reported this Friday, which reported that it is working on the case.

In a note, he explained that work is being done “to clarify the legal situation of Cecilia Sala and they will verify the conditions of her detention.”

Furthermore, this Friday, the ambassador, Paola Amadei, made “a visit to verify the conditions and state of detention” of the journalist, who was previously able to telephone her family twice, the note added.

Sala is an expert in international information and a contributor to the newspaper Il Foglio and he had been in Tehran on a regular journalistic visa for about ten days, during which he had already published some reports on how the scenario in Iran was changing after the fall of the regime in Syria, according to reports Efe.

The journalist had made some reports from the country on the conditions of women. For example, on December 17 he spoke in a podcast about “patriarchy in Tehran.”

Sala is now locked up in Evin prisonin the capital, where all opponents of the regime have been locked up since 1972.

This Friday a summit is planned in Rome between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio and the Undersecretary of the Presidency of the Government Alfredo Mantovano with the objective of immediately finding the technical and diplomatic means to free Cecilia Sala as soon as possible.