Smiling, with her glasses hanging from the collar of a dark shirt, as she greets Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: this is the first image of Cecilia Sala since her return from Iran, published on the social media profiles of Il Post, where the journalist's partner, Daniele Raineri, works, shortly after the plane landed at Ciampino Airport.
In the background, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and the Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri. The Italian journalist Cecilia Sala She landed at 16:15 p.m. on Wednesday in Italy, at Rome Ciampino airport, on a flight from Tehran, Iran. She had been released in the morning, after being detained since December 19, when she was arrested in the hotel where she was staying.
Sala is 29 years old and had gone to Iran on a regular journalist visa: she had arrived on December 12, and was due to return on the 20th. The Iranian authorities have never officially charged her with any crime: they have only said that she had been arrested for "violating the laws of the Islamic Republic".
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