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Zam had run a website called AmadNews that posted embarrassing videos and information about Iranian officials.Published: &nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;Last Updated:TEHRAN:&nbsp;Iran on Tuesday sentenced a journalist to death whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.Ruhollah Zam had returned to Iran under unclear circumstances and was subsequently arrested. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili announced Zam's sentence on Tuesday.Zam had run a website called AmadNews that posted embarrassing videos and information about Iranian officials. He had been living and working in exile in Paris before being convinced into returning to Iran, where he was arrested in October 2019.Zam later appeared in televised confessions admitting his wrongdoings and offering an apology for his past activities.Zam ran a channel on the messaging app Telegram that spread messages about upcoming protests in 2017 and shared videos from the demonstration. That gained him widespread notoriety at the time, including from Iranian authorities wanting to end the protests.Telegram shut down the channel over Iranian government complaints it spread information about how to make gasoline bombs. The channel later continued under a different name.Zam is the son of Shiite cleric Mohammad Ali Zam, a reformist who once served in a government policy position in the early 1980s. The cleric wrote a letter published by Iranian media in July 2017 in which he said he wouldn’t support his son over AmadNews’ reporting and messages on its Telegram channel.TEHRAN:&nbsp;Iran on Tuesday sentenced a journalist to death whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.Ruhollah Zam had returned to Iran under unclear circumstances and was subsequently arrested. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili announced Zam's sentence on Tuesday.Zam had run a website called AmadNews that posted embarrassing videos and information about Iranian officials. He had been living and working in exile in Paris before being convinced into returning to Iran, where he was arrested in October 2019.Zam later appeared in televised confessions admitting his wrongdoings and offering an apology for his past activities.Zam ran a channel on the messaging app Telegram that spread messages about upcoming protests in 2017 and shared videos from the demonstration. That gained him widespread notoriety at the time, including from Iranian authorities wanting to end the protests.Telegram shut down the channel over Iranian government complaints it spread information about how to make gasoline bombs. The channel later continued under a different name.Zam is the son of Shiite cleric Mohammad Ali Zam, a reformist who once served in a government policy position in the early 1980s. The cleric wrote a letter published by Iranian media in July 2017 in which he said he wouldn’t support his son over AmadNews’ reporting and messages on its Telegram channel.OPENIndia Matters: We respect your thoughts and views! But we need to be judicious while moderating your comments. All the comments will be moderated by the newindianexpress.com editorial. Abstain from posting comments that are obscene, defamatory or inflammatory, and do not indulge in personal attacks. Try to avoid outside hyperlinks inside the comment. Help us delete comments that do not follow these guidelines.The views expressed in comments published on newindianexpress.com are those of the comment writers alone. They do not represent the views or opinions of newindianexpress.com or its staff, nor do they represent the views or opinions of The New Indian Express Group, or any entity of, or affiliated with, The New Indian Express Group. newindianexpress.com reserves the right to take any or all comments down at any time.

Zam had run a website called AmadNews that posted embarrassing videos and information about Iranian officials.Published: &nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;Last Updated:TEHRAN:&nbsp;Iran on Tuesday sentenced a journalist to death whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.Ruhollah Zam had returned to Iran under unclear circumstances and was subsequently arrested. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili announced Zam's sentence on Tuesday.Zam had run a website called AmadNews that posted embarrassing videos and information about Iranian officials. He had been living and...

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