World in brief: January 8, 2025
This image released December 27, 2024 by Chora Media shows Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained on December 19 as she was reporting in Iran, Italy's foreign ministry said
ITALY: A journalist detained in Iran for three weeks was freed today 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.
Sala, a 29-year-old reporter for the Il Foglio daily, was detained in Tehran on December 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.
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