They executed an Iranian journalist



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The dissident Iranian journalist Zam clothing, who had been convicted of incitement to violence during the 2017 anti-government demonstrations, was executed today, broadcast on Iranian state television.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Iran confirmed the death penalty of Zam, who was arrested in 2019 after staying three years in exile. Your website Anadnews had more than one million followers.

The state television network Seda va Sima broadcast that Zam“The director of the counterrevolutionary network Amadnews was hanged this morning.”

THE France and human rights organizations they had condemn the Supreme Court decision.

Characterizing Zam “Journalist and dissident”, The human rights organization Amnesty International reacted by emphasizing that this decision indicates “An escalation in Iran’s use of the death penalty as a weapon of repression, causing commotion”.

The NGO also asked European Union intervene with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “to revoke this inhuman punishment.”

The son of a reformist Shiite cleric, Zam had fled Iran and was granted asylum by France.

He October 2019, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that it had caught Zam with a “Multifaceted Operation Using Intelligence Fraud”. He did not say where the operation took place.

Iranian officials have blamed them U.Sas well as Tehran’s regional rival, Saudi Arabia, and opponents of the government, living in exile, sparking unrest in late 2017 when regional protests over economic hardship spread across the country.

According to officials, 21 people lost their lives during riots and thousands I was arrestedThe riots were the worst Iran has experienced in decades, and last year there were even bloodier protests against rising fuel prices.

Zam’s Amadnews operation was suspended by messaging service Telegram in 2018 on charges of inciting violence, but later reappeared under a different name.

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