Mattarella calls Sala's mother and congratulates Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 8 - President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday called the mother of Cecilia Sala, the Italian journalist released in Tehran after being arrested December 19, and also congratulated Premier Giorgia Meloni for the government's work in securing her release, presidential sources said.
    Mattarella expressed his compliments to Prime Meloni for Sala's return to Italy, and then called her mother, Elisabetta Vernoni, whom he had met in the days following her arrest, they said.
    Sala, 29, an Il Foglio reporter and Chora News podcaster, was freed from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison where she was being held in solitary confinement. (ANSA).