HEADLINES & GLOBAL NEWS By 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.