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“In some moments they attempt to make you loosen up by supplying you with a prize, resembling a date or a cigarette, and different instances they attempt to break you by supplying you with dangerous information,” she stated.
Sala was arrested by Iranian authorities on Dec. 19 and accused of “violating the regulation of the Islamic Republic” whereas on a reporting journey in Tehran. She was then launched on Jan. 8, after 21 days in detention. Her arrest got here a number of days after the arrest of Mohammad Abedini, an Iranian nationwide who had been accused of supplying drone elements to Iran. Abedini was arrested by Italian authorities in Milan following a request from the United States. He was then launched on Jan. 12, 4 days after Sala.
Sala stated she by no means thought that her launch would occur so shortly.
“This has been the quickest operation to launch a prisoner in Iran because the Nineteen Eighties. I’ve been following Iran as a journalist and I knew the opposite circumstances, so I knew that 21 days was not an possibility,” she stated.
‘Often heartbreaking’
During her time in Tehran’s Evin jail, Sala was positioned in a tiny isolation cell, with no mattress to sleep on and with a vivid white gentle at all times turned on. “In these circumstances, it’s very exhausting to sleep and your physique loses sense of time,” she stated.
“On the primary night time I requested if I may have the Koran in English, as a result of I assumed it was a guide that they may not deny to me,” she stated. “Instead, they did, so I began spending time counting my fingers, studying the components on the bread bag and repeating the multiplication tables,” she added.
