Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been freed from an Iranian prison and is on a plane home, a spokesperson for the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday.

Cecilia Sala, who was arrested in Tehran and jailed for three weeks, has arrived back in Italy, hours after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's office announced her release.

An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks has been freed and has returned home, after her fate had become intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer arrested in Italy and wanted by the United States.

After more than three weeks of detention, Cecilia Sala has been released from Tehran's Evin Prison and was met at the airport in Rome by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Cecilia Sala, 29, was detained last month while on a reporting trip. She had been held for 20 days and told her family that she was kept in isolation.

The Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, arrested on December 19 in Iran, was released and repatriated, the Italian government announced. She was arrested for “violating the laws” of the Islamic Republic.

Celilia Sala, 29, was working under a regular journalistic visa when she was detained in Tehran on December 19, accused of “violating the laws of the Islamic Republic”.

ROME: Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was freed by Iran on Wednesday (Jan 8) and returned home, three weeks after she was detained in Tehran during a reporting trip. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Mel

Elon Musk played no role in negotiations between Italy and Iran for the release of a journalist who was held in a Tehran prison, Italy's foreign minister said on Friday, dismissing a media report that the U.

Elon Musk was instrumental in securing the release of a young Italian journalist who was jailed in Iran on trumped up charges, it was reported on Thursday.

Elon Musk helped to free imprisoned Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from Iran after the 29-year-old’s boyfriend reached out to him to intervene, according to a report. When Sala’s boyfriend, Daniele Raineri,