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#ITALY: Cecilia Sala freed from Tehran detention and torment. Lorenzo Fiori

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#ITALY: Cecilia Sala freed from Tehran detention and torment. Lorenzo Fiori

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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. To Italy, to Lorenzo Fiore on the beautiful side streets of Milano, heading to the theater tonight.

0:17.6

However, he's very carefully reserved some moments for us to speak of all the good

0:23.4

news about Italy this week in America. And then a story about labor in the most expensive vineyards

0:31.1

of Italy. This is a lot of politics, but it's also, there's joy here because Chichilla Sala is home.

0:40.3

This is the young journalist Italian who was abducted off the streets of Tehran by the regime

0:49.0

and held solitary confinement in Evan Prison, the infamous prison, with no particular attention in solitary

0:57.6

confinement, just a blanket to lie on, the light always on, to torment her. So she was sleep

1:03.9

deprived. And Lorenzo introduced all of the details last week when we met. And then during the week, I read that she was released. I don't

1:14.5

know why or what was in between. But it's important to mention that Georgia Maloney, the prime

1:20.0

minister, got involved right away. And so I did, I believe so did other allies of Italy.

1:26.4

Lorenzo, this is wonderful news.

1:28.2

What else do we know about Chechilia?

1:29.8

Is she well?

1:30.8

Is she home?

1:32.1

And who is it that we can thank for releasing her?

1:35.6

Good evening to you.

1:36.9

Good evening, John, and good evening to the radio listener.

1:39.9

Well, let me tell you that Chechilia is okay.

1:42.9

And this is a very, very good news for all the Italians.

1:46.5

This time, I must admit, there is a sort of transversal, let's say, convergence,

1:52.4

that the Sicilia release is a very good start of this year.

1:57.3

Cecilia is fine.

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