Iran has confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, state news agency IRNA said, citing the Iranian Ministry of Culture. <\/p>\n
Italy\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday that Sala was detained in Tehran. IRNA said Monday that Sala had been detained on December 19 after \u201cviolating the laws of the Islamic republic of Iran.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cHer case is currently under investigation. Her arrest was carried out in accordance with the relevant regulations, and the Italian Embassy in Tehran has been informed,\u201d IRNA said, citing the Iranian Ministry of Culture. <\/p>\n
The reporter was visited in prison Friday by Italian Ambassador Paola Amadei \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
\u201cWe still don\u2019t know the charges,\u201d Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told journalists on Saturday. <\/p>\n
Until Saturday, a lawyer had not visited Sala in prison, the foreign minister added. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope that (the lawyer) will be able to do so in the next few days and that he will be able to know the exact charges as soon as possible,\u201d Tajani said. <\/p>\n
Sala was reporting in the Iranian capital when she was \u201cstopped by Tehran police\u201d on December 19, the Italian foreign ministry 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
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
The Italian outlet Chora Media, where Sala also works, said Friday 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 had not made Sala\u2019s detention public sooner as her parents and Italian authorities had asked it to remain silent, hoping for the journalist\u2019s swift release. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Iran has confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, state news agency IRNA said, citing the Iranian Ministry of Culture. Italy\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday that Sala was detained in Tehran. IRNA said Monday that Sala had been detained on December 19 after \u201cviolating the laws of the Islamic republic of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}