Iran executes exiled journalist who encouraged 2017 protests
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How Iran lured a dissident from France to execution
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Author: AFP|Update: 02.02.2021 09:05 Iranian dissident Ruhollah Zam s execution in December 2020 provoked international condemnation / © MIZAN NEWS/AFP
In October 2019, Iranian dissident Ruhollah Zam was running a widely followed news site based in France, accompanied by his family and benefitting from refugee status as well as security in his country of exile.
But just over a year later, on December 12, 2020, Zam was hanged in Iran, an execution that prompted international condemnation.
How had Zam gone from the relative comfort of his life in France to meeting his death aged just 42 at the hands of the hangman in his home country, whose leaders he had targeted in his work?
Zam: The family that picked their son over the revolution IranSource by Arash Azizi
Ruhollah Zam, a dissident journalist who was captured in what Tehran calls an intelligence operation, speaks during his trial in Tehran, Iran June 2, 2020. Picture taken June 2, 2020. Mizan News Agency/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
“Goodbye, my son; a son who was a father, a husband, a brother and a comrade; a comrade to the very end,” wrote prominent reformist cleric Mohammad Ali Zam in an Instagram post. He was the father of dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was brutally executed on December 12.
In 2019, Ruhollah was lured to Iraq, arrested upon arrival and handed over to Iranian intelligence agents who then took him to Iran where was put on trial for a long list of allegations. Among those were spying for Israel and France, provoking armed forces to mutiny and collaborate with the U