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Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of inciting violence during the 2017 anti-government protests, was executed on Saturday, Iranian state television announced.
Iran’s Supreme Court upheld Zam’s death sentence on Tuesday, who was captured in 2019 after years of exile. His Amadnews news channel was viewed by more than a million people, Agerpres reports.
State broadcaster Seda va Sima announced on Saturday that “the director of the counterrevolutionary network Amadnews was hanged this morning.”
France and human rights groups have condemned the Supreme Court decision.
The son of a reformist Shiite cleric, Zam fled Iran and received asylum in France.
In October 2019, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that it had caught Zam in a “complex operation to combat foreign intelligence”, without saying where it took place.
Iranian officials have accused Saudi Arabia, a regional rival of the United States and Tehran, and government opponents living in exile of causing the unrest, which began in late 2017 when regional protests over economic hardship spread across the country. the country.
Authorities said 21 people died during the riots and thousands were arrested. The unrest has been one of the worst Iran has seen in decades, followed by even more deadly protests last year over rising fuel prices.
Zam’s Amadnews source was suspended by the Telegram messaging service in 2018 for alleged incitement to violence, but later reappeared under a different name.
Publisher: GC
