In 2019, agents lured him to Baghdad, where they abducted him. He was executed just days after being told his verdict had been upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court, but he was not given advanced notice of when he was going to be hanged. Zam's lawyer said that there were only 72 hours between the announcement of the death sentence and the execution, but due to the closure of the judiciary on Thursdays and Fridays, he did not have the opportunity to submit a request for retrial.