{"id":4564,"date":"2021-02-28T14:55:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T14:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2021-02-28T14:55:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T14:55:11","slug":"irans-execution-of-journalist-ruhollah-zam-briefly-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4564","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s execution of journalist Ruhollah Zam, briefly explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam, whose reporting helped spur large anti-government protests, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-iran-execution-dissident\/iran-executes-dissident-journalist-ruhollah-zam-state-media-idUSKBN28M06S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executed<\/a>&nbsp;by Iran&#8221;&nbsp;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Zam, 47, was found guilty of \u201ccorruption on earth\u201d and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2020\/12\/iran-execution-of-journalist-rouhollah-zam-a-deadly-blow-to-freedom-of-expression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sentenced to death<\/a>&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The vague charge of \u201ccorruption on earth\u201d is often used \u201cin cases involving espionage or attempts to overthrow Iran\u2019s government,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/12\/12\/iran-executes-dissident-journalist-ruhollah-zam-state-tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Al Jazeera reported Saturday<\/a>.<br>Zam ran the site Amad News and coordinated a Telegram channel, both of which helped spread information during a wave of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2018\/1\/3\/16841310\/iran-protests-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anti-regime protests that shook Iran<\/a>&nbsp;in 2017 and 2018. He was living abroad in Paris at the time, but returned to the Middle East in 2019 and was arrested in Iraq by members of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/12\/12\/22171194\/irans-execution-journalist-ruhollah-zam\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/12\/12\/22171194\/irans-execution-journalist-ruhollah-zam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam, whose reporting helped spur large anti-government protests, was executed by Iran&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zam, 47, was found guilty of \u201ccorruption on earth\u201d and sentenced to death&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vague charge of \u201ccorruption on earth\u201d is often used \u201cin cases involving espionage or attempts to overthrow Iran\u2019s government,\u201d Al Jazeera reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Zam ran the site Amad News and coordinated a Telegram channel, both of which helped spread information during a wave of anti-regime protests that shook Iran in 2017 and 2018. He was living abroad in Paris at the time, but returned to the Middle East in 2019 and was arrested in Iraq by members of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[156,661],"class_list":["post-4564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-iran","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}