Cecilia Sala has been given every
facility in Tehran's Evin Prison and Italy should now in
response release Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, a 38-year-old
Swiss-Iranian businessman arrested in Milan on US terror charges
three days before the Italian journalist in the Iranian capital,
Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Reza Sabouri said during talks on
Sala's case at the Farnesina Thursday.
"From the first moments of Cecilia Sala's arrest, consular
access to the Italian embassy in Tehran was guaranteed and she
was also provided with all the necessary facilities, including
repeated telephone contact with her loved ones," said Sabouri of
the 29-year-old Il Foglio freelance reporter and podcaster who
is in solitary confinement without a mattress and with the light
on 24/7, unable to read because her glasses have been
confiscated.
"The Italian government is expected to reciprocally, in addition
to accelerating the release of the detained Iranian citizen,
provide the necessary assistance facilities that he needs", said
the Iranian embassy in Rome on X.
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