Iran Snapshot: Death Sentence Handed Down on Iranian-Dutch National Zahra Bahrami

Given the international attention to the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, condemned to execution for adultery, there was little notice of another woman sentenced to death in Iran.

Zahra Bahrami, an Iranian-Dutch national, was ordered to hang on drugs charges. Her condemnation, by the "hard-line" Judge Abolqasem Salavati, occurred on Sunday, but it was only yesterday that her daughter, Banafsheh Najebpour, felt it was safe to inform the media.

Najebpour summarised in a radio interview:

I am devastated. What has my mother done wrong for heavens sake? I just don't understand it.

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