Overview

• Sala says agents seized her money, passport and phone, hooded her, and took her from a Tehran hotel on 19 December 2024.
• She reports being led before a crane used for hangings and warned, “This is what we do to spies,” which she says triggered a panic attack and led to sedation.
• Her account describes forced undressing, a bare cell with constant light and only a steel bucket for sanitation, painted flags she was made to step on, and screams from interrogation rooms.
• Iranian authorities maintain she was detained for violating Iranian law as interrogators pushed her to confess to spying, including through an Italian-speaking officer.
• She says she was held 21 days in Evin, where men were routinely beaten and some women were struck, though she was not beaten.