The brother of a slain Mississauga teen was granted a $10,000 bail in a courtroom in Brampton on Friday.

Waqas Parvez, 26, was released on his own recognizance and ordered to surrender both his Canadian and Pakistani passports. He was charged with obstructing the investigation surrounding the murder of his 16-year-old sister Aqsa.

Their father Muhammad Parvez, 57, was charged with Second-Degree murder after he allegedly strangled Aqsa to death over reported tensions about her refusal to wear a Hijab, a traditional Muslim garb.

Meanwhile, Muslim religious leaders said the crime shouldn't be linked to the faith. They said it's an issue of domestic violence. 

Dressed in a black bomber jacket and grey shirt, Parvez expressed little emotion during his court appearance. The judge asked him to return on January 10, 2008.

There's a publication ban on evidence presented at the hearing, which was also attended by his brother, Muhammad Shan Parvez.

Parvez's release comes just one day before Aqsa's funeral that's going to be held at 1:30pm Saturday at the Islamic Centre of Canada Mosque located at 2200 South Sheridan Way in Mississauga. The service won't be open to the public.