Italy has summoned Iran’s ambassador to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran.
Iran denied on Monday any link between the recent arrest of an Italian journalist in Tehran and that of an Iranian national by Italy, amid a diplomatic standoff between the two countries.
The case of the prominent Italian journalist detained in Iran is a test for Italy’s government as it gets caught up in Iran’s ...
Iran said on Monday the detention of an Iranian national in Italy at the request of the U.S. amounted to hostage-taking.
US President-elect Donald Trump hailed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as a “fantastic woman” as she became the latest ...
Iran has accused the U.S. of hostage-taking after Italian authorities detained Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini in Milan.
Italy's foreign ministry summoned the Iranian ambassador on Thursday to demand the immediate release of reporter Cecilia Sala ...
Italy's government said Friday that a journalist ... detention," according to a statement from the ministry. Sala was in Iran reporting for the Italian newspaper Il Foglio, according to an article ...
Complicating matters are indications that Sala's fate has become intertwined with that of an Iranian man who was detained in ...
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been detained in Iran since Dec. 19 on charges of breaching Islamic law, her plight ...