Mohammad Abedini's release comes days after Iran freed Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from a Tehran jail following intense diplomatic efforts by Rome. Iran announced on Sunday that a national ...

An Italian journalist arrested and jailed in Iran since December has been freed and returned to Rome on Wednesday, even as a diplomatic spat between the two countries lingers over an Iranian held in Milan.

After more than three weeks of detention, Cecilia Sala has been released from Tehran's Evin Prison and was met at the airport in Rome by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

While Washington was hoping for another outcome with Abedini, the agreement between Rome and Tehran appears to have been a classic case of hostage diplomacy — albeit one heightened by the ...

A plane carrying Cecilia Sala, 29, landed at Rome’s Ciampino airport ... The 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 ...

Though Rome and Tehran have both publicly denied any connection between the fates of Sala and Abedini, Nathalie Tocci, director of Rome’s Institute of International Affairs, said Abedini’s ...

A plane carrying the 29-year-old landed at Rome’s Ciampino airport on Wednesday. Her overjoyed parents and partner were on hand to welcome her back, as were the prime minister, the foreign minister, and the mayor of Rome.

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been freed from an Iranian prison and is on a plane home, a spokesperson for the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday.

According to local reports, prison officials stepped in to rescue the Swiss national at the Semnan prison, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) east of Tehran. But their efforts were in vain.View on eurone

Cecilia Sala, who was arrested in Tehran and jailed for three weeks, has arrived back in Italy, hours after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's office announced her release.

A plane carrying journalist Cecilia Sala has left Tehran and will soon arrive back in Italy, Italian authorities announced on Wednesday. Sala had been held in the Iranian capital's notorious Evin

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has landed back in Rome after being freed from an Iranian prison where she had been detained for weeks. Sala works as a reporter for the Italian daily II Foglio, which announced that the journalist arrived in Rome on Wednesday,