Arrest and execution [ ] On 14 October 2019, Iran's announced they had lured Zam back to Iran and arrested him, although according to other sources, he had been arrested in by intelligence officials, and handed over to Iran based on the between the two countries signed in 2011 | Human Rights Institute [ IBAHRI] 15 December 2020 |
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Zam was sentenced to death according to the judiciary spokesman, Gholamhossein Esmaili, on 30 June 2020 | Zam eventually fled Iran to reside in France |
Biography [ ] Ruhollah Zam was born into a clerical family in Tehran in 1978 | This is a barbaric and unacceptable act that goes against the country's international commitments |
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As a response to the execution, ambassadors from France, Germany, Austria, and Italy cancelled their participation in the Europe-Iran Business Forum, an online business forum | , a wrestler executed in 2020 for his alleged actions during the• He was executed by hanging on 12 December 2020 |
'Voice of the People' , which he founded in 2015 | It provided the timing and organizational details of the protests as well as information about officials that challenged the Iranian government |
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Zam played a high-profile role in the , to which he devoted special coverage at the time |
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