MEPs want action on Dutch Iranian woman
Tuesday 24 August 2010
Dutch members of the European parliament have called on EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton to raise the jailing of Dutch Iranian woman Zahra Bahrami with the authorities in Teheran, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday.
Bahrami, 45, was arrested in December while visiting one of her children in Iran and accused of taking part in an anti-government demonstration.
Human rights groups say she has been held in solitary confinement and tortured.
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If she is Dutch, why don't the Dutch raise this with the authorities in Teheran? I hope also the EU does, but that will take far to long to wait for the EU. Why are not the Dutch protecting one of their own citizens?
By Quest | August 24, 2010 6:42 PM