Iran Sentences Journalist Ruhollah Zam to Death
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Iran has sentenced to death a journalist whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.
Ruhollah Zam had returned to Iran under unclear circumstances and was subsequently arrested. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili announced Zam’s sentence on Tuesday.
Zam had run a website called AmadNews that posted embarrassing videos and information about Iranian officials. He had been living and working in exile in Paris before being convinced into returning to Iran, where he was arrested in October 2019.
Zam later appeared in televised confessions, where he offered an apology for his past activities.
Zam ran a channel on the messaging app Telegram that spread messages about upcoming protests in 2017 and shared videos from the demonstration. That gained him widespread notoriety at the time, including from Iranian authorities wanting to end the protests.
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The Guardian
Iran has sentenced to death a journalist whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.
Ruhollah Zam had returned to Iran under unclear circumstances and was subsequently arrested. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili announced Zam’s sentence on Tuesday.
Zam had run a website called AmadNews that posted embarrassing videos and information about Iranian officials. He had been living and working in exile in Paris before being convinced into returning to Iran, where he was arrested in October 2019.
Zam later appeared in televised confessions, where he offered an apology for his past activities.
Zam ran a channel on the messaging app Telegram that spread messages about upcoming protests in 2017 and shared videos from the demonstration. That gained him widespread notoriety at the time, including from Iranian authorities wanting to end the protests.
Read More →
Associated Press in Tehran | 30 June 2020
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