Iran protests after teen murdered in Canada

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer checks a security perimeter in front of the Parliament building in Ottawa in 2009. The foreign ministry on Sunday summoned Canada's charge d'affaires over the murder in Ottawa of Iranian citizen Yazdan Ghiasvand, the official ISNA news agency reported.

AFP - The foreign ministry on Sunday summoned Canada's charge d'affaires over the murder in Ottawa of Iranian citizen Yazdan Ghiasvand, the official ISNA news agency reported.

The ministry "protested about the murder of this Iranian citizen and demanded a speedy inquiry," the agency said, without elaborating on the circumstances of the murder.

Canada's public broadcaster CBC News reported that a teenager named Yazdan Ghiasi was shot dead in the capital on December 6, and that three men had been charged in connection with his death.

Relations between Tehran and Ottawa are rocky, with Canada denouncing the human rights situation in Iran.

On Friday, Canada's First Lady Maureen Harper said she was "deeply saddened" that an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery had not been released as reported earlier.

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