Iran’s Supreme Court on Tuesday has upheld a death sentence against journalist Ruhollah Zam who is arrested “for fueling anti-government unrest in 2017 on social media”, a judiciary spokesman said.
“The Supreme Court … has upheld the sentence passed by the Revolutionary Court in this case,” spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told reporters during a news conference streamed live on a judiciary website on Tuesday.
Zam was arrested in Iraq in October 2019, in what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps called a “complicated operation”.
Zam was the head of Amadnews, a Telegram channel with more than one million followers.
The channel was suspended by the company in 2018 following a request from Iran accusing it of carrying calls for violence during the protests.
Zam’s channel soon re-appeared under a new name.
