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Ruhollah Zam ran the Amadnews online website and Telegram channel
Iran has sentenced a journalist to death after accusing him of the usage of a messaging app to high-tail up dissent.
Ruhollah Zam used to be stumbled on guilty of “corruption on earth”, one of the essential nation’s most serious offences, a judiciary spokesman said.
Zam had been living in exile in France, but used to be arrested closing yr.
He ran the Amadnews online website, a in type anti-authorities dialogue board which Iran accuses of inciting the nationwide protests of 2017-18.
The news network, which has spherical 1.4m followers on encrypted messaging app Telegram, shared movies of protests and unfavorable records about Iranian officials.
It used to be shut down by the Iranian authorities, but later reopened below a different name.
Zam, the son of reformist cleric Mohammad Ali Zam, can allure the verdict. He had beforehand denied the bills, BBC Persian experiences.
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It is some distance unclear how Zam came to be arrested. He had been granted political asylum in France, having been imprisoned in Iran after the disputed 2009 presidential election.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said closing yr that it had extinct “in type intelligence programs and innovative ways”, which enabled it to “deceive” international companies and products and arrest Zam.
The IRGC alleged that Zam used to be “below the steering” and safety of intelligence companies and products in France, Israel and the US.
In accordance to the Associated Press news agency, he later appeared on tv and apologised for his actions.