{"id":79114,"date":"2020-02-10T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T23:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=79114"},"modified":"2020-04-15T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:21:17","slug":"report-iran-opposition-figure-goes-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/02\/10\/report-iran-opposition-figure-goes-on-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Iran Opposition Figure Goes on Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA – TEHRAN – An Iranian opposition figure who had been living in exile before being arrested in a Revolutionary Guards operation went on trial in Tehran on Monday, Fars news agency said. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the arrest of Ruhollah Zam in October, describing him as a “counter-revolutionary” who was “directed by France’s intelligence service.” It did not specify where he was arrested.<\/p>\n

Zam, who reportedly lived in Paris, ran a channel on the Telegram messaging app called Amadnews.<\/p>\n

He was accused by authorities of playing an active role in anti-government protests sparked by economic hardship during the winter of 2017-18.<\/p>\n

Telegram shut down Amadnews in 2018 after Iran demanded it remove the account for inciting an “armed uprising.”<\/p>\n

At Monday’s court hearing, the prosecution read Zam’s indictment containing 15 counts, said Fars, which is close to ultra-conservatives.<\/p>\n

Iranian state television announced meanwhile that it would broadcast a “documentary” about Zam on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International has repeatedly called on Iran to stop broadcasting videos of “confessions” by suspects, saying they “violate the defendants’ rights.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA – TEHRAN – An Iranian opposition figure who had been living in exile before being arrested in a Revolutionary Guards operation went on trial in Tehran on Monday, Fars news agency said. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the arrest of Ruhollah Zam in October, describing him as a “counter-revolutionary” who was “directed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}