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.

Italy’s foreign ministry says an Italian journalist who was reporting in Tehran has been detained by the Iranian police

Iran has detained one of Italy’s best-known journalists, Cecilia Sala, in Tehran, raising fears that Iranian authorities might be holding her as leverage in their dealings with the West—an increasingly common tactic by authoritarian regimes.