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Italian journalist Cecilia Sala released from Iran and returning home

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala released from Iran and returning home | iNFOnews.ca
This image released Friday Dec. 27, 2024 by Chora Media shows Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained on Dec. 19 as she was reporting in Iran, Italy's foreign ministry said. ( Chora Media via Ap )

ROME (AP) — An Italian journalist detained in Iran since Dec. 19 has been freed and is heading back to Italy, Premier Giorgia Meloni’s office announced Wednesday.

A plane carrying Cecilia Sala took off from Tehran after “intensive work on diplomatic and intelligence channels,” a statement said.

Sala, a reporter for the Il Foglio daily, was detained in Tehran on Dec. 19, three days after she arrived on a journalist visa. Her plight had become intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer arrested in Italy on a U.S. warrant.

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