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.
CBC NEWS
3 comments:
I feel horrible for him and his family!
That is so sad. I can't believe how many sad things we hear in the news lately. It makes me ill. I hope the government does something to help, he's Canadian after all. Fingers crossed.
Harper doesn't have the balls to help. Between this news and the new American style of military spending, I'm pretty cranky.
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