Iran has executed a once-exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017. According to the Iranian state television and RNA news agency, Ruhollah Zam was hanged early Saturday morning.
Earlier, a court sentenced Zam to death, saying he had been convicted of “corruption on Earth” – a charge often used in cases involving espionage or attempts to overthrow Iran’s government. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) at the time said his trials were “grossly unfair”.

Zam spread the timings of the protests and embarrassing information about officials that directly challenged Iran’s government on his website and a channel he created on the popular messaging app Telegram.  His Amad News feed had more than a million followers. hose portests which began at the end of 2017, represented the biggest challenge to Iran since the 2009 Green Movement protests and set the stage for similar mass unrest in November of last year. Zam was also accused of being party to the destruction of property, interfering in the country’s economic system, working with the United States government, spying for French intelligence, and “spying for the intelligence service of a country in the region”.

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