The linked cases of Iranian engineer Mohammad Abedini and Italian reporter Cecilia Sala are the latest flashpoint between ...

An Italian journalist arrested and jailed in Iran since December has been freed and returned to Rome on Wednesday, even as a ...

According to local reports, prison officials stepped in to rescue the Swiss national at the Semnan prison, some 180 ...

Italy has decided to “revoke” the arrest of an Iranian engineer wanted by the US for alleged illegal exports of sophisticated technology, just days after Tehran freed an Italian journalist from its ...

Abedini has been held in a Milan jail since his arrest, with Iran denying the accusations and calling his detention an "illegal act" that risked damaging Rome-Tehran relations. The statement from ...

ROME (AP) — The fate of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran and an Iranian engineer imprisoned in Italy on a U.S.

an Italian reporter detained in Tehran just days after Abedini was arrested at Milan’s Malpensa airport on a U.S. warrant. Italian commentators have speculated that Iran is holding Sala as a ...

Journalist Cecilia Sala, who was held by Tehran police for almost three weeks for her "journalistic activities," has been released and is headed home.

Iran said on Monday the detention of an Iranian national in Italy at the request of the U.S. amounted to hostage-taking.

with Italy protesting the detention of Sala and Tehran contesting the holding of Iranian national Mohammad Abedini in a Milan jail. Abedini, 38, was arrested in Italy last month at the behest of ...

Tehran confirmed Monday that Sala had been arrested on charges ... Mohammad Abedini-Najafabad was arrested at Milan’s ...