By Sara Daniel
Published on August 27, 2024 at 6:00 p.m.updated on August 27, 2024 at 6:00 p.m.
Rouhollah Zam and his daughter in “The Trap – Execution of a Mullah’s Son” © NAHID PERSSON/REAL REEL DOC AB/ ARTE
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Selection With this documentary, Nahid Persson Sarvestani looks back at the journey of Rouhollah Zam, a figure of the opposition in Tehran in exile in France, until his kidnapping and tragic death. Tonight at 10:30 p.m. on Arte.
This is a film that has the merit of showing the sinister, sophisticated and intrusive methods of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, who hunt down their opponents wherever they are. To illustrate these crimes of the Islamic Republic, Iranian-Swedish documentary filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani chose to tell the story of Rouhollah Zam, executed on December 12, 2020 in Tehran.
This son of a mullah, whose first name is a tribute to Ayatollah Khomeini, grew up in the circles of the Tehran elite, attended good schools, but joined the protests during the post-election uprising of 2009. Close to the green movement, supporting the reformers who rebelled against the fraudulent re-election of the ultraconservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he was arrested and imprisoned in the sinister Evin prison. On his release, after a s…
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