Iran sentences journalist Ruhollah Zam to death

[sammuel]

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Iran sentences journalist Ruhollah Zam to death

Iran has sentenced to death a journalist whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.

Ruhollah Zam had returned to Iran under unclear circumstances and was subsequently arrested. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili announced Zam’s sentence on Tuesday.

Zam had run a website called AmadNews that posted embarrassing videos and information about Iranian officials. He had been living and working in exile in Paris before being convinced into returning to Iran, where he was arrested in October 2019.

Zam later appeared in televised confessions, where he offered an apology for his past activities.

Zam ran a channel on the messaging app Telegram that spread messages about upcoming protests in 2017 and shared videos from the demonstration. That gained him widespread notoriety at the time, including from Iranian authorities wanting to end the protests.

Telegram shut down the channel as a result of Iranian government complaints that it spread information about how to make petrol bombs. The channel later continued under a different name.

Zam is the son of the Shia cleric Mohammad Ali Zam, a reformist who served in a government policy position in the early 1980s. The cleric wrote a letter published by Iranian media in July 2017 in which he said he would not support his son over AmadNews’s reporting and messages on its Telegram channel.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/iran-sentences-journalist-ruhollah-zam-to-death

 

[raptor22]

journalist?

 

[sammuel]

journalist?

Your Iranian brother is sentenced to death for no reason and you wonder about his writing credentials ?

I think anyone here , who likes to write freely in this forum and likes to express himself , should be bothered , when someone else is being silenced in such a brutal way.

Really does not matter what nationality he has.

As for his " credentials "

I have not heard about it till now. But this is what wiki says :


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Zam


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[BATMAN]

This is state sponsored murder. I see no justification to sentence a journalist to death.

 

[925boy]

journalist?

"JOURNALIST"......who was a natural "protestor" or "freedom seeker for Iran".....who got contacted and weaponized by CIA or Mossad......and was converted into an efficient force multiplier for his handlers....until the iRGC caught up with him....and now he must pay for all the "damage" done

 

[Bahram Esfandiari]

This is state sponsored murder. I see know justification to sentence a journalist to death.

Holy smokes Batman, Journalists don't go around giving instructions on how to make incendiary bombs to rioters they stoke in order to overthrow governments. Try a little harder bud!

 

[Aramagedon]

He sponsored armed terror attacks in his Telegram channel with help of saudi, israel, France and Yankee land and luckily our intelligence & security forces arrested him while he didn’t except at all.

Rot in lowest level of hell nasty dog.

 

[Pandora]

This is how it should be in Pakistan as well. If human filth like Hamid Mir and Saleem Tafi were born in Iran they would have been hanged at least 100 times by now. I admire Iran and Turkey in this regard that they cleaned up all the filth of biased journalists and politicians from their societies who damage their own motherland.