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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