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Iranian activist and journalist Ruhola Zam, web director Amadnews, He was hanged this Saturday after being sentenced to death for inciting the protests against the regime registered at the end of 2017 in Iran, the Tehran General and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office reported in a statement.
“Zam was sentenced to death on 13 counts, included corruption on earth, and his sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court and after the legal proceedings early today, December 12, 2020, his death sentence was carried out and he was hanged, “the statement said.
The denomination “corruption in the land” is the one that in Iran is given to the most serious charges such as murder, terrorism or raising arms against the State, and that Islamic jurisprudence usually punishes with the gallows.
Ruholá Zam, who lived for several years in exile in France, was arrested in 2019 in Iran by the intelligence service of the Corps of the Guardians of the Revolution, after falling “into a trap” of that elite group who managed to get him to travel to Iran, as this military body published at the time.
According to the authorities, Zam took advantage of his status as the cleric’s son Mohamad Ali Zam to get closer to the scions of senior officials in the country and obtain sensitive information about the theocratic regime.
PROTEST PUBLICATIONS
During the protests that broke out in December 2017 in Iran against the famine and which led to criticism of the system, the Telegram Amadnews also Zam published numerous information and images.
That channel was blocked by Iran, which accused the activist and journalist of inciting violence and being “a tool in the hands of foreign spy services” opposed to Iran.
Those protests, in which more than twenty people died and thousands were arrested, They were followed by others in November 2019 against the rise in the price of gasoline and the Iranian theocratic system, which were even more deadly.
Zam has already been imprisoned in Iran for his participation in the 2009 Green Movement demonstrations against the reelection of ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
After being released, he went into exile in France, where he resided until his arrest last year.
