Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist
held in Iran with the possible aim of a prisoner swap, has no
mattress but just two blankets, one to put on the floor to sleep
on and one to protect herself from the biting cold of Tehran's
notorious Evin Prison, Italian news outlets reported Thursday.
The 29-year-old Rome-born Il Foglio freelance correspondent and
Chora News podcaster was arrested in the Iranian capital on
December 16, three days after a 38-year-old Swiss-Iranian
businessman, Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, was picked up at
Milan's Malpensa Aiport on a US warrant for allegedly supplying
drone parts allegedly used in a January 2023 attack that killed
three US servicemen in Jordan.
Sala has told her family about her conditions in Evin, the
Italian dailies said.
She is in solitary confinement, she doesn't even see the guards:
her food comes to her through a crack in the door.
It's not true that she received a package with food, hygiene
products and books, since she can't read because her glasses
were confiscated.
A neon light is on in her cell all day and all night.
Her parents, who were able to hear their daughter after days of
solitary confinement, say that their daughter is very tired and
that she often repeated during the phone call: "We have to
hurry".
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