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Family losing hope for missing Canadian

Wed, 07/05/2006 - 12:00

After 100 days since Huseyincan Celil was taken into foreign custody, questions still swirl around his disappearance, his whereabouts and the Canadian government's response.

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Uzbekistan: Family Demands Release Of Uyghur Imam Extradited To China

Mon, 07/03/2006 - 12:00

The family of a Canadian Muslim religious leader extradited from Uzbekistan to China is demanding his release. Imam Huseyincan Celil, an ethnic Uyghur activist, is reportedly facing possible execution. Family lawyer Chris MacLeod told RFE/RL from Toronto that the Canadian government must make the strongest possible representations to Beijing to get him released.

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Harper gets plea to save Canadian - Burlington man faces death in China

Mon, 07/03/2006 - 12:00

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being called on to send a special envoy to China to secure the release of an imprisoned Canadian facing a death sentence.

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Chinese diplomats face kidnapping

Fri, 06/30/2006 - 12:00

The Chinese diplomatic mission in Pakistan has said that members of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) are planning to kidnap senior Chinese diplomats and consular officers in the country.

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Canada presses China over deported Uighur activist

Thu, 06/29/2006 - 12:00

Canada is pressing China to reveal what it has done with a Canadian citizen who is also a member of the Muslim Uighur minority, Canada's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

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Two Men Held Incommunicado After Forcible Return to China from Kazakhstan (First Update to UA 100/06)

Thu, 06/29/2006 - 12:00


Yusuf Kadir Tohti and Abdukadir Sidik, who are originally from China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), are being held in incommunicado detention in China after being forcibly returned from Kazakhstan on 10 May.

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Canadian citizen extradited to China could be put to death

Wed, 06/28/2006 - 12:00

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

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Canadian citizen facing execution in China

Wed, 06/28/2006 - 12:00

A Canadian citizen faces execution after being extradited from Uzbekistan to China.

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EDITORIAL: Uighur terrorism in Pakistan

Wed, 06/28/2006 - 12:00

The Chinese embassy in Islamabad has reportedly complained that members of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) are planning to kidnap senior Chinese diplomats and consular officers in the country.

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Imam now in China's hands

Tue, 06/27/2006 - 12:00

A Burlington man, who faces a death sentence in China for his human rights work, now finds himself back in that country after being extradicted from Uzbekistan.

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