Re: If you are a Canadian of Chinese origin, Beijing Olympic is a Dangerous Place! -- Protests Abound After Chinese Court Upholds Life Sentence for Canadian Man
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Re: If you are a Canadian of Chinese origin, Beijing Olympic is a Dangerous Place! -- Protests Abound After Chinese Court Upholds Life Sentence for Canadian Man         

Group: soc.culture.hongkong · Group Profile
Author: brushoff
Date: Jul 15, 2007 22:23

On Jul 12, 9:45 am, rst0wxyz yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jul 12, 8:12 am, Micky Wong - rogers.com> wrote:
>
>> Who tells you that he was arrested inside China ?
>
> Every country has treaties with other countries to arrest and send
> back to country of origin for trial. Just because he escaped and
> granted Canadian citizen doesn't make him immuned from prosecution.
>
>
>
>> Farting on the internet without the common sense of geography is
>> tolerated but will be an object of ridicule. :-) :-)
>
> You do more than anyone else on the internet, Micky Wong. You should
> be ashamed of your association with the falun gong. It's too bad
> China can not reach out and harvest everyone of the falun gong's
> organs. The world needs organs for tansplants.
>
>
>
>
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>> rst0wxyz wrote:
>>> If you go to China to stir up trouble and break the law, you will pay
>>> for your activities. Just because he's Canadian doesn't make him any
>>> different from any other citizen. He's lucky he's not sentence to the
>>> firing squad.
>
>>> On Jul 12, 6:45 am, Micky Wong wrote:
>>>> If you are a Canadian of Chinese origin, Beijing Olympic is a Dangerous
>>>> Place! -- Protests Abound After Chinese Court Upholds Life Sentence for
>>>> Canadian Man
>
>>>> Protests Abound After Chinese Court Upholds Life Sentence for Canadian Man
>
>>>> Canadians of Chinese origin not safe traveling abroad, group says
>
>>>> By Jason Loftus
>>>> Epoch Times Toronto Staff
>>>> Jul 12, 2007
>
>>>>http://en.epochtimes.com/news_images/2007-2-7-islah3_go.jpg
>>>> Huseyincan Celil before his arrest. (Bloggers.com)
>
>>>> Related Articles
>>>> - China Rejects Appeal by Jailed Uighur-Canadian Tuesday, July 10, 2007
>>>> - Imprisoned Canadian in Spotlight as MacKay Heads to China Friday,
>>>> April 27, 2007
>>>> - Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Heads to China Amid Calls for Human
>>>> Rights Wednesday, April 25, 2007
>>>> - China Jails Uighur-Canadian "Terrorist" For Life Thursday, April 19, 2007
>>>> - China Rejects Canadian Fears About Muslim Activist Friday, February
>>>> 09, 2007
>>>> - Canadian Tortured in Chinese Jail, Family Says Wednesday, February 07,
>>>> 2007
>
>>>> Human rights groups and the Canadian government separately condemned a
>>>> ruling this week by a Chinese court affirming a life sentence for a
>>>> Canadian accused of "separatist activities."
>
>>>> "We were deeply disappointed to learn that Mr. Celil's appeal has been
>>>> rejected by a Chinese superior court," Foreign Affairs Minister Peter
>>>> MacKay said in a statement Tuesday. "In our view, due process for this
>>>> Canadian citizen was not followed and his rights were not respected."
>
>>>> Huseyincan Celil of Burlington, Ont. was sentenced in April to life in
>>>> prison. On Tuesday, a higher court rejected his appeal. Family members
>>>> said neither Celil nor his lawyer were allowed to speak at the hearing.
>
>>>> "In order for the court to judge this case better and more accurately,
>>>> the court should hold a trial before announcing the decision," Celil's
>>>> Chinese lawyer Wei Rujiu told the Globe and Mail newspaper.
>
>>>> Celil was arrested by authorities in Uzbekistan in March 2006, at the
>>>> behest of the Chinese regime. He was deported to China where he has
>>>> remained in detention.
>
>>>> Celil is an outspoken advocate of the rights of Uighur Muslims in the
>>>> northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang and for the region's independence.
>
>>>> He was detained and tortured previously in China for his activities and
>>>> escaped the country in 1997. He was granted U.N. refugee status in
>>>> Turkey and immigrated to Canada in 2000.
>
>>>> His wife and four children, aged 11 months to eight years, live in
>>>> Burlington, Ont.
>
>>>> Family members and supporters reported in February that Celil had been
>>>> tortured in detention in China and coerced into signing a confession
>>>> statement, which he reportedly renounced.
>
>>>> Canadian embassy officials have been denied access to Celil by the
>>>> Chinese regime, which refuses to acknowledge Celil's Canadian citizenship.
>
>>>> In response, the Canadian government said this week it was reviewing its
>>>> consular agreement with the communist regime "to determine whether it is
>>>> in fact an effective means of safeguarding Chinese-Canadian dual
>>>> citizens travelling on Canadian passports."
>
>>>> One prominent Chinese-Canadian organization, the Chinese Canadian
>>>> National Council, raised such a concern on Wednesday following the news
>>>> of Mr. Celil's sentence.
>
>>>> "CCNC maintains its position that the plight of Huseyin Celil has
>>>> far-reaching implications for naturalized Canadians of Chinese origin
>>>> who travel to China or to surrounding nations where they may face the
>>>> threat of arrest, imprisonment, or deportation to China and no access to
>>>> consular services," the group said in a statement.
>
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