Iran Executes Exiled Journalist Who Encouraged 2017 Protests

Iran Executes Exiled Journalist Who Encouraged 2017 Protests
Ruhollah Zam, a former opposition figure who had lived in exile in France and had been implicated in anti-government protests, speaks during his trial at Iran's Revolutionary Court in Tehran, Iran, on June 2, 2020. Ali Shirband/Mizan News/AFP via Getty Images
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iran executed an exiled journalist on Dec. 12 over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, a little more than a year after authorities tricked him into traveling to Iraq where he was abducted.

Ruhollah Zam, 47, was one of several opposition figures successfully seized by Iranian intelligence operatives abroad in recent months.