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Iran summons EU envoys for protesting Ruhollah Zam s hanging
14.12.2020
Iran on Sunday summoned the German and French envoys to Tehran after the European Union condemned the execution of an Iranian journalist whose work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, Iranian state media reported. Zam had been jailed in Iran after Iranian authorities seized him while he was traveling in neighbouring Iraq last year. Zam had been living in exile in France before his kidnapping.
The German Foreign Ministry on Saturday expressed its shock about the circumstances of Zam s sentencing and what it described as his ``abduction from abroad and forced return to Iran.
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Dec 13, 2020 06:58 AM EST
Last Saturday morning, journalist Ruhollah Zam was executed in Iran, which has drawn international condemnation according to state media reports. Ruhollah Zam s reporting abetted spur big anti-Iranian government protests.
In June 2020, Ruhollah Zam, 47, was found guilty of corruption on earth or a case of espionage attempts to overthrow Iran s government and sentenced to death. On Tuesday last week, Iran s Supreme Court maintained the verdict soon before his execution through hanging.
From 2017 to 2018, Paris-asylum Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam ran the Amad News site and coordinated a Telegram channel, which shares information about the anti-regime protests that shook Iran. In 2019, for an unclear reason, he returned and was arrested in Iraq by members of Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
TEHRAN, Iran Iran on Sunday summoned the German envoy to Tehran after the European Union condemned the execution of an Iranian journalist whose work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, Iranian state media has reported. IRNA said that an Iranian foreign ministry official summoned the German ambassador because of EU statements on the […]