2007/02/20
Canadians Assess Action on Huseyin Celil Case
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Many adults in Canada have a clear idea of the way their federal administration should deal with the case of Huseyin Celil, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. 53 per cent of respondents think the Canadian government should protest the treatment of Celil, who is being held by Chinese authorities on terrorism charges, through regular diplomatic channels.
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2007/02/18
Who is Huseyin Celil?
Caught in the grip of Beijing
He is a very stubborn man, a pious imam and a proud Uighur. He's drawn the wrath of China's authorities who brand him a terrorist. Huseyin Celil is also a Canadian, jailed in an unknown prison in western China. And his case is straining relations between the two nations
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070217.CELIL17/TPStory/TPInternational/Asia/?pageRequested=all
These days, attention is focused on the case of Huseyin Celil, who emigrated to Canada from China. On a trip to Uzbekistan, he was arrested and shipped to China. He has been held at an undisclosed location for about eight months.
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2007/02/13
Celil Needs Your Help!
HE NEEDS OUR HELP!
Celil’s situation is getting worse and terrifying along with the latest bad news of Ismail Samed’s execution whose case was parallel to Celil’s.
As you know recent updates below, China does not allow any Canadian officials or lawyers to defend Huseyincan Celil through his trial started recently.
This seems unfair and unjust yet we should remember that we are dealing with biggest horrendous and horrific country in the world, communist China.
Celil’s family lawyer Chris MacLeod said that He couldn’t get to China because China did not approved his travel visa.
Therefore we have no choice but hiring another lawyer in China who can be able to defend Celil and provide us his updates in Urumqi, China.
With the help of Chris Macleod and Amnesty Canada another lawyer in China will be hired.
We need to raise up to $12.000 to cover new lawyer expenses. Already we have matching $3000 promised by Amnesty Canada.
We need our community’s support on this fund. We ask everybody to involve and help out.
Please spread this campaign everyone in your mailing lists and let everybody know.
We also ask our community leaders to participate and inform their people through their services.
Please contact us via freehcorg@gmail.com for more information on transferring your donations or any other concerns.
Terrifying parallels
Man executed in China belonged to same minority group as Burlington detainee
By Dana BorceaWith Spectator wire services
(Feb 10, 2007)
The wife of a Burlington man imprisoned in China is reeling after hearing that another man, detained for similar reasons, has been executed.
Read AllCelil Won't Face Death Penalty in China: MacKay
Josh Pringle
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay says the Canadian Government is doing everything it can to convince China to respect the rights of Huseyin Celil.
The Burlington father of six is accused of terrorism, and China doesn't recognize his dual citizenship.
MacKay told CTV's Question Period that there's no reason why Canada cannot insist on respect for human rights, and still have trade with China.
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Harper warns China on human-rights trade threat
y Randall Palmer Fri Feb 9, 5:58 PM ET
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned Beijing on Friday against trying to use trade as a lever to deflect criticism of its human rights record, including its treatment of a Canadian imprisoned in China.
He gave a blunt response to remarks by a Chinese official, published on Friday, that the two countries need to trust each other for their economic relationship to flourish.
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2007/02/12
Canada-China row intensifies over terrorism charges
Montreal- The Canadian government came under fire Thursday for its handling of a diplomatic row with China, after the family of a Chinese-Canadian held on terrorism charges said he had been abandoned by Canadian diplomats. Huseyin Celil, a member of the Muslim ethnic Uighur community who lived in the Xingjiang province of China, was arrested on terrorism charges in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent while visiting family on March 27, 2006.
He was extradited to China three months later under an agreement between the Uzbek and Chinese governments.
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China Executes Uighur Activist ISMAIL SAMED
BEIJING — China has executed Uighur Muslim activist Ismail Samed on c
harges of "splitting the Chinese motherland" with rights groups and his lawyer slamming his trial as politically motivated and unfair.
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Canadian 'anger' at China trial
The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is said to be "displeased" that Canadian diplomats did not attend the trial in China of a Canadian Uighur.
Huseyincan Celil, an ethnic Uighur and a rights activist, is on trial on terrorism charges in Urumqi in Xinjiang, home to a Muslim majority.
2007/02/09
China rejects concerns about Muslim activist
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday Canadian diplomats had no right to be present at a court hearing for a Chinese Uighur Muslim accused of terrorism who was awarded joint Canandian citizenship two years ago.
Yu Shanjiang, also known as Huseyincan Celil, fled China in the 1990s and traveled last year to Uzbekistan, where he was detained and then extradited back to China on terrorism charges.
China has not recognized his Canadian citizenship, obtained in 2005.
Read AllDetainee alive, tortured in jail, wife learns
Kamila Telendibaeva is now sure of two things she didn't know last week.
One is that her husband is alive. The other is that Chinese authorities have tortured him in prison.
"I'm 100 per cent sure they did it," she said yesterday.
Read AllFamily claims Chinese-Canadian tortured in China
Updated Thu. Feb. 8 2007 10:09 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
The family of a Chinese-Canadian imprisoned in China on terror-related charges spoke with CTV News inside the country, despite the fear that police would arrest them for talking to the foreign press.
Huseyin Celil's sister, mother and older brother met CTV's Steve Chao to speak out about his alleged mistreatment.
"He is being tortured by Chinese police," said Celil's mother. "They forced him to sign a confession, or he would be put in a hole and buried alive."
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Celil's desperate family had given up hope
GEOFFREY YORK
Globe and Mail Update
URUMQI, China — When he was marched in handcuffs into a courtroom in this remote Chinese city last week, Huseyin Celil was like a man returning from the grave.
His family had been convinced that he was probably dead. For months, they had been hounding the prisons of Urumqi, begging for any news of him. They searched computer records and spoke to prison staff, desperate for any sign that the Canadian religious leader was still alive.
China says agreement with Canada doesn't apply to Celil case
Audra Ang, Canadian Press
Published: Thursday, February 08, 2007BEIJING - The case of a Canadian activist jailed for alleged terrorist links will be handled according to Chinese law and is not subject to consular agreements, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Thursday.
Read all2007/02/07
Protest marks Xinjiang 'massacre'
Dozens of exiled Uighur Muslims have protested outside China’s embassy in Washington DC on the 10th anniversary of a massacre that some say was on a similar scale to events in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Protesters waved Uighur flags and chanted slogans calling on China to account for the many people they say were killed on February 5, 1997.
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2007/02/06
Harper Angry Diplomats Missed Start of Trial for Canadian
Josh Pringle
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants to know why there was no Canadian diplomat present at a recent court appearance for a Canadian man imprisoned in China.
Harper is insisting that Canadian diplomats in China attend future court proceedings
Senior Government Officials say diplomats in Beijing and Ottawa fumbled the ball when Huseyin Celil appeared in court last week.
Celil has been jailed at an unknown location in China for almost eight months for alleged ties to terror groups.
Canadian Finance Minister in China
China does not recognize his Canadian citizenship and Ottawa has been aggressively lobbying for his release. His family says he is being persecuted because he is a Muslim and a political dissident who fled his homeland in the 1990s.
Canada's campaign to have Celil released has angered Chinese officials, as did Canada's granting of honorary citizenship to the exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama.
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PM irked as diplomats miss activist's hearing
Government says Canadian diplomats in Beijing and consular officials in Ottawa fumbled the ball
OTTAWA AND BEIJING — Angered by what he believes is lack of attention to a serious human-rights case, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is demanding an explanation for why no Canadian diplomat was present at the recent court appearance of a Canadian man accused of terrorist activities.
Both Canadian diplomats in Beijing and consular officials in Ottawa fumbled the ball last week when Huseyin Celil appeared in a Chinese court, a senior government official said Monday night in Ottawa.
Harper wants action on Burlington man in Chinese prison
TORONTO - The prime minister is angry and wants to know why there was no Canadian diplomat present at a recent court appearance for a Burlington man imprisoned in China.
A published report today quotes a senior government official saying that diplomats in both Beijing and Ottawa fumbled the ball when Huseyin Celil appeared in court last week.
Stephen Harper is insisting that Canadian diplomats in China attend future court proceedings, which opened Friday in the provincial city of Urumqi.
Diplomats say they have been frustrated by the fact that China will not recognize Celil's Canadian citizenship.
But the official says a Canadian representative should have been present for the opening of the trial as a signal of how seriously the Harper government is taking the case.
Celil, a former imam at a mosque in Hamilton, has been jailed at an unknown location in China for almost eight months for alleged ties to terror groups.
2007/02/04
Celil at the Chinese Court
Huseyin Celil was brought to trial on Friday(Feb 2, Friday) in Urumqi
for 6 hours after having kept nearly 8 month in unknown location by
China's authorities.
his mother, sisters and his son joined the trial with along secrete
service members and regional police represenatatives.
government appointed lawyer has tried to represent Mr. Celil.
soon after Court opened, Mr. Celil asked to see appointed lawyer's law
lisence to confirm wether he is a
lawyer or not. court has rejected his request.
Mr. Celil asked the court he is Canadian citizen and he wants to
have the presence Canadian personal from Embassy, lawyer with law
degree that recommended by Canadian Embassy, or his wife or at least
other Canadian HR organizations to represent him at the court.
court kep silence on his request.
during 6 hours trial, government side did not present any charges
against him interestingly.
Mr. Celil also asked the court to know, after so many months, "what is
the charge against me, and why I am detained.
court spent most of the time to ask his activities in Canada.
Mr. Celil told the court that, he was a student and busy enough to take
care of his small kids.
he said to the court in response that "I live and exercise my rights
within
the limit of Canadian Law in Canada. I attend community activities if my
time permitts, but most of the time I could not able to attend any
social
events organized by Uyghurs in Canada due to my time that spent mostly
with my kids".
Mr. Celil at the end of the court asked again that he wants to see
Canadian representatives in Beijing.
his mother and sisters described that his condition is good.
also secrete police asked if there is any pictures from Canada for his
wife and new born child.
government appointed lawyer told his mother and sister that, so far in
his understanding there is no any reason he has seen why Mr. Celil was
detained and kept in China.
according to that Lawyer, his repeated request to see the charges
against Huseyin Celil was turned down and he was hoping to see it in
the court, but no one brought up any charges against him.
instead of presenting any charges against him, prosecutors simply
started to question him what kinds of activity he has engaged in Canada
against China.
court closed after 6 hours of empity talks and said there will be other
trial soon.
information is recieved from the relatives of Mr. Celil by phone.
Uyghur Canadian Association
Democracy, Human Rights through non-violence
www.uyghurcanadian.org
info@uyghurcanadian.org
Photos of the Last Protest
Photos of the December 10th Protesting Rally in front of Chinese Embassy in Toronto
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