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Canadian national has died in Iran at the hands of the authorities, says Ottawa
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Canadian citizen has died in Iran at the hands of the Iranian authorities, Ottawa’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand says in a social media post, without giving details of how or when.
“Peaceful protests by the Iranian people — asking that their voices be heard in the face of the Iranian regime’s repression and ongoing human rights violations — has led the regime to flagrantly disregard human life,” she says.
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