Posted on 02/01/2011 4:52:42 AM PST by Moltke
Zahra Bahrami, the Dutch-Iranian woman who was hanged in Iran on Saturday for drug trafficking and the possession of drugs had also been convicted on drug charges in the Netherlands.
The Dutch current affairs TV programme Nieuwsuur reported on Monday night that documents in its possession show that Bahrami was sentenced to three years for attempting to smuggle 16 kilos of cocaine from the Caribbean to the Netherlands. In 2007, she was convicted for forging a passport.
In the programme, Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal said that the new information does not cast a different light on the case. He said Zahra Bahrami's trial in Iran was a farce.
The Iranian ambassador to the Netherlands said that Iran was aware of her previous convictions in the Netherlands. He argued that she was arrested for a drug-related offence and for forging passports, not for attending a demonstration in Iran.
She should have stayed in jail in the Netherlands...
Criminals is so stupid.
Always do drugs in your own country... unless it's Iran. And forget about trafficking.
Iran vs. drug dealers = Stopped clock, right twice a day.
Yep. If she’d been given a proper sentence, she’d still be alive. Jailed, but alive.
She won’t be a repeat offender in the future.
That’s about the picture I see also. She got busted with 16 kilos of coke in NL. That’s a suitcase full. But being from Iran, she must’ve known what would happen if she got caught there with drugs? Greed? Stupidity?
Of course, the Dutch are at fault in any case. They simply didn’t give her enough benefits so that she could lead a life without drug trafficking.
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