Roohollah Zam

Year: 2020

Nationality: Iran

Killed by: Government Officials

Location: Tehran, Iran

Press organization: Amad News

What's Roohollah Zam's story?

Iranian authorities executed journalist Roohollah Zam by hanging on December 12, 2020 after sentencing him to death on anti-state charges for his coverage of protests in 2017. Intelligence agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) lured Zam to Iraq, where he was abducted on October 14, 2019, and taken to Iran, according to news reports.

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