Italy has summoned Iran’s ambassador to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran.

The Italian government has summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest the detention of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in Tehran, calling for her immediate release, the Foreign Ministry in Rome said on Thursday.

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been detained in Tehran, Italy’s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. She was in Iran on a reporting trip.

The Italian reporter is being held in solitary confinement within Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, a jail for dissidents and political prisoners. She must be released forthwith. For who knows what lurks in the hearts of the Ayatollah Khamenei and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard?

Italy has summoned Iran’s ambassador to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran. Cecilia Sala, a reporter for the Il Foglio daily newspaper, was detained in Tehran on December 19,