Source: CBS News
“An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks and whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States was freed Wednesday and is heading home, Italian officials announced. A plane carrying Cecilia Sala took off from Tehran after ‘intensive work on diplomatic and intelligence channels,’ Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s office said, adding that Meloni had informed Sala’s parents of the news. Iranian media acknowledged the journalist’s release, citing only the foreign reports. Iranian officials offered no immediate comment. Sala, a 29-year-old reporter for the Il Foglio daily, was detained in Tehran on Dec. 19, three days after she arrived on a journalist visa. She was accused of violating the laws of the Islamic Republic, the official IRNA news agency said, but no details of her purported transgressions were ever provided by Iranian officials.” (01/08/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cecilia-sala-iran-italy-journalist-freed-us-iranians-detained/