Photo: The Canadian Press Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks with Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, right, and Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development Mary Ng during the G20 Leaders Dinner at Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park, Badung, Bali . Indonesia on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, during the G20 Leaders’ Summit. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office said it had deleted a tweet his account posted overnight denouncing the Iranian regime based on false information circulating on social media. The message said Iran’s decision to execute nearly 15,000 protesters was “barbaric,” but that number has been widely discredited as misinformation. The prime minister’s office says the tweet, which was online for about 11 hours, was based on an initial report that was incomplete and lacked the necessary context. An Instagram post citing the number was widely shared by celebrities before it was removed, while Trudeau’s office pointed to reports on news sites including Newsweek and Yahoo that shared the same information. State media in Iran reported on Sunday that an anti-government protester was sentenced to death in what is believed to be the first time, a fact the PMO says “should not be overlooked”. Human rights protests have continued in the two months since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody after she was arrested for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code for women.
