The Eurasia Review website reports today (January 31, 2011) that the Netherlands has broken off ties with Iran to protest the hanging of a Dutch-Iranian woman for possessing and selling drugs, and has asked the European Union to take action against Iran.
The woman, Zahra Bahrami, 45, a native of Iran, was executed on January 29 in Tehran, more than a year after she was detained during protests against the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.
Bahrami's daughter told the New York-based rights group International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the drug charges were fabricated.
The Netherlands today asked the Council of Foreign Ministers of the European Union to take action against Iran for Bahrami's execution.
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