Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against Anti-Islamic Revolution journalist Ruhollah Zam for fuelling anti-government unrest in 2017 on social media, a judiciary spokesman said.
“Yes, the Supreme Court … has upheld the sentence passed by the Revolutionary Court in this case,” spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told a news conference streamed live on a judiciary website on Tuesday.
Esmaeili said the court had considered and approved Zam’s sentence “more than one month ago”.
Zam was arrested in Iraq in October 2019. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said at the time he was apprehended following a “complicated operation”.
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