Italian journalist Cecilia Sala returns to Rome following weeks of imprisonment in Iran

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was also present to welcome Sala back alongside her family. Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and Rome’s Mayor Roberto Gualtieri were also present. Meloni and Sala met inside the building, where the two shook hands and briefly talked. The Italian premier was heard praising Sala telling her, “You were strong”. Sala was detained in Iran for three weeks, the vast majority of which she spent in solitary confinement after her fate had become intertwined with that of an Iranian national arrested in Italy and wanted in the US for alleged arms sales.