Canadian citizen extradited to China could be put to death

[align=left]Canadian citizen extradited to China could be put to death[/align]
CBC News | June 28 2006

Uzbekistan has extradited a Canadian citizen to China, where he faces a death sentence.

Huseyincan Celil was sentenced to death in China for human rights work.

The 37-year-old was sentenced in absentia for founding a political party to work on behalf of the Uighur people, a minority ethnic group in the Xinjiang province.

A father of six, Celil fled China in the mid-1990s. He came to Canada in 2001 from Turkey as a refugee and became a Canadian citizen.

The Burlington, Ont., resident has been held in an Uzbekistan jail since March. He was arrested in March while trying to renew his visitor's visa in the capital Tashkent.

A spokesperson for Foreign Affairs said the department informed Celil's family of the development on Monday and is trying to confirm where Celil is being held.

Celil and his wife have three children in Ontario and he has three more in China, a family friend told the Hamilton Spectator in April.

The same friend said Celil was in Uzbekistan in an attempt to try to get his three children out of China, but didn't explain how.

The Chinese don't mess around when it comes to militant, violent Moslems! :dance:

China detains Muslim Uighur
Staff and agencies
06 June, 2006

1 hour, 24 minutes ago

BEIJING - An ethnic Uighur man held by Chinese authorities for more than two months on conspiracy charges has been tortured and denied food while in detention, a rights group said Tuesday.

It said Hoshun, 31, has been suspended from the ceiling, beaten and denied food for three days, as punishment for not memorizing the centerâ??s regulations in Chinese, a language he does not speak.

Beijing blames Uighur separatists for sporadic bombings and other violence in Xinjiang, which the Uighurs refer to as "East Turkestan." (bold mine)

"We are extremely concerned about Tudahun," Alim Seytoff, a spokesman for the rights group, was quoted as saying in the statement. "We hope by going public with this information we can at least ensure the abuse stops."

The move was apparently to keep Kadeerâ??s family from talking to a U.S. congressional team that was visiting Xinjiang, the group said.
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