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Iran executes dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam
Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of fomenting violence during the 2017 anti-government protests, has been executed, state television reported.
Key points:
- Zam fled Iran and was given asylum in France
- Iran said it had trapped Zam in 2019 in a “complex operation using intelligence deception”
- Iranian officials accuse opponents in exile of stoking the 2017 unrest
Iran’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for Zam on Tuesday. He was captured in 2019 after years in exile.
His Amadnews feed had more than 1 million followers.
State broadcaster Seda va Sima said that Zam, “director of the counter-revolutionary Amadnews network, was hanged this morning”.
The son of a pro-reform Shiite cleric, Zam fled Iran and was given…
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