Sala given every facility, free Abedini - Iran envoy

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 2 - 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. (ANSA).