An Iran court on Tuesday 30 June sentenced Ruhollah Zam, a former opposition figure, to death.
Upon his return from exile in France in 2019, Ruhollah Zam, who was charged with stirring anti-government demonstrations, was arrested and charged with corruption charges.
Last year the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared Zam ‘s arrest in October.
“The court has considered 13 counts of charges together as instances of corruption on earth and therefore passed the death sentence,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said today after his sentencing.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had called Zam a “counter-revolutionary” who was “directed by France’s intelligence service”.
Zam, who reportedly lived in Paris, had participated in anti-government protests in 2017 and ran a channel called Amadnews on the Telegram messaging app. Telegram shut down Amadnews after Iran requested the removal of the account for inciting a “armed uprising”
According to the indictment released by Zam in February, he was charged with “committing crimes against the internal and external security of the country” and “espionage for the French intelligence service” along with “corruption on earth.”
He was also charged with violating the “sanctity of Islam”