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Executed Iranian journalist Zam falsely promised release, not given execution notice
2020-12-13
[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] Executed Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam was falsely promised release in a prisoner exchange by Iran’s authorities, who also gave him no notice of his execution, his father said on Saturday.

Zam, who Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
had convicted of inciting violence during anti-government protests in late 2017, was executed on Saturday, state media reported. He ran Amadnews, a channel on popular messaging app Telegram which had over a million followers.

Zam’s father, Mohammad-Ali Zam, a holy man who served in senior government positions in the 1980s and 1990s, said in an Instagram post that judicial authorities had falsely promised to release his son in a prisoner exchange.

Authorities "tricked" Zam into making false confessions and statements on that basis, claiming the confessions would facilitate the supposed prisoner swap, Zam’s father wrote.

Iranian state TV aired a series of televised confessions earlier this year over his work. Iran’s state broadcaster (IRIB) has a long history of airing purported confessions that activists and rights groups say are obtained through threats and torture.

Neither Zam nor his family were given notice for his execution, Zam’s father said, adding that Zam was also not informed the Supreme Court had upheld his death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
Zam, who had been given political asylum in La Belle France and was also based in other parts of Europe, was captured in 2019 after years in exile. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said at the time they had "trapped" Zam in a "complex operation using intelligence deception."

The IRGC did not say where the operation took place. Iranian media reported Zam was captured after travelling to Iraq.

Zam was sentenced to death in June, and his death sentence was upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court on Tuesday.

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