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“A month ago, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in his case and the ruling of the Revolutionary Court was confirmed,” said the spokesman for the Judiciary, Ghulam Husayn Ismaeli, in a press conference broadcast on the Internet, without giving further details.
And Amnesty International considered in a tweet that the confirmation by the Supreme Court of Iran of the death sentence handed down against Zam, whom it described as a “journalist and opponent”, constitutes “a shocking escalation in the use of the death penalty for part of Iran as a means of repression. “
The organization called on the European Union to intervene quickly with the Supreme Leader in Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “to cancel this harsh ruling.”
Zam lived in exile in France for several years before being arrested by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, under mysterious circumstances.
His arrest was announced in October 2019, but Iran did not specify the place or time of his arrest, accusing the 40-year-old opposition of being “led by French intelligence and supported” by American and Israeli intelligence.
Zam, who has refugee status in France, ran a channel on the messaging app “Telegram” called “Amad News”, which Tehran accuses of playing an active role in the protest movement during the winter of 2017-2018.
At least 25 people were killed in the riots that took place in dozens of Iranian cities between December 28, 2017 and January 3, 2018. Tehran described this protest movement against the high cost of living, which quickly took a political turn , like a “rebellion”.
In June, Ismaily announced that the Tehran Revolutionary Court “considered the 13 charges (against which he represented) equal to the accusation of corruption on the ground, and therefore handed down a death sentence.”
