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Iran executes French-based dissident journalist Zam

Iran executes French-based dissident journalist Zam

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12 Dec 2020 - 19:19
Iran executes French-based dissident journalist Zam
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12 Dec 2020 - 19:19

KABUL (Pajhwok): Iran on Saturday hanged Director Amadnews Network Zam after the country’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for the accused.

The country’s Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence of Zam, who was captured in 2019 after years of living in exile in France. His Amadnews feed had more than one million followers.

France and human rights groups had condemned the Supreme Court’s decision.

Press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned the execution.

“RSF is outraged at this new crime of Iranian justice and sees (Supreme Leader Ayatollah) @ali_khamenei as the mastermind of this execution,” the group tweeted.

Amnesty International said it was “shocked and horrified” by Iran’s action.

“We call on the international community, including member states of the UN Human Rights Council and the EU, to take immediate action to pressure the Iranian authorities to halt their escalating use of the death penalty as a weapon of political repression,” the right group said in a statement.

The son of a pro-reform Shi’ite cleric, Zam fled Iran and was given asylum in France.

In October 2019, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said it had trapped Zam in a “complex operation using intelligence deception.” It did not say where the operation took place.

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