Reuters- The Canadian government said on Tuesday it was �seriously concerned� with the circumstances surrounding the death of an Iranian-Canadian dual citizen in a Tehran prison, and that it was pressing Iran to provide details on what happened.
Kavous Seyed-Emami, an environmental activist and sociology professor, was arrested on Jan. 24 and died in prison, his son wrote on Twitter last week. Iran�s judiciary said on Sunday that Seyed-Emami, 63, had committed suicide.


�We are seriously concerned by the situation surrounding the detention and death of Mr. Seyed-Emami,� Canada�s foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, said in a statement.


�We expect the Government of Iran to provide information and answers into the circumstances surrounding this tragedy. We will continue to use every means at Canada�s disposal to seek further information.�


Seyed-Emami was the managing director of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation, an organization aimed at protecting Iran�s rare animals, and a U.S.-trained scholar in sociology.


He was arrested the same day as at least nine other staff members at his organization, according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), a non-profit group based in New York.


Iran�s judiciary said Seyed-Emami was a defendant in a spying case and had committed suicide because of the weight of evidence against him, an Iranian news agency reported on Sunday. He died in Tehran�s Evin prison, his son said.