Iran delivers official complaint over murder of citizen in Belgium

Local Editor, 6-11-2009

Iran has strongly protested the murder of one of its nationals in a prison in Belgium.

The director of the Iranian Foreign Ministry's department for expatriates delivered the Islamic Republic's official protest to the Belgian ambassador to Tehran at a meeting on Tuesday.

Iranian citizen Mamiani Asl was murdered last week in Leuven prison.

The Belgian ambassador expressed regret over the murder and said the issue would be investigated and the results of the probe would be announced.

According to Radio Netherlands, an Iranian inmate was killed by a special police unit after midnight on Friday.