An Iranian dissident based in France has been sentenced to death after apparently being kidnapped, taken back home and put on trial.
Ruhollah Zam ran Amadnews, an online opposition news service, from Paris. He became a target for the regime after supporting protests that broke out across the country in December 2017.
He disappeared last October while in Iraq. Soon after he was shown on Iranian state TV being cross-examined by a judge, and the Revolutionary Guard said he had been seized in a “sophisticated intelligence operation”.
Yesterday a statement by the judiciary said he had been “convicted of corruption on Earth by a revolutionary court”, a charge used for the most serious offences against the regime, which carries an automatic death penalty.
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