AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government will do everything possible to determine whether a Dutch-Iranian woman who was executed in Iran was tortured, and to return her body to her family, the foreign minister told parliament on Thursday.
The Netherlands froze diplomatic contacts with Iran after Zahra Bahrami, a 45-year-old woman with dual Dutch-Iranian citizenship, was hanged on Saturday for drug smuggling, a charge that her family says was fabricated after she was arrested for participating in anti-government protests in 2009.
