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Extradition: The Search for Huseyin Celil TVO
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In 2006, Canadian Huseyin Celil, a Uyghur refugee, travelled with his wife and children to Uzebekistan to visit family. What was supposed to be a family reunion ended when he was arrested under false pretenses and eventually delivered to China where he was sent to prison. 17-years later, his fate remains unknown and his family desperate for answers.
‘Extradition: The Search for Huseyin Celil,’ a six-part investigative series from TVO Today, reopens the diplomatic cold case. With China implementing harsher crackdowns on its Uyghur population, Huseyin was cut off from communicating from his family. No one knows how he’s doing or where he is. In the wake of the release of the Two Michaels in 2021, the series re-examines why Canada couldn’t do the same for Huseyin. It investigates whether the Canadian government has done all it can to release him, and takes matters into its own hands to get more information on Huseyin’s whereabouts today. Hosted by Yusuf Zine.
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Introducing "Extradition"
‘Extradition: The Search for Huseyin Celil’ reopens the diplomatic cold case of a Canadian Uyghur refugee imprisoned in China. In the wake of the release of the Two Michaels in 2021, the series re-examines why Canada couldn’t do the same for Huseyin. With China implementing harsher crackdowns on its Uyghur Muslim population, Huseyin was cut off from communicating from his family. No one knows how he’s doing or where he is. This six-part investigative series from TVO Today investigates whether the Canadian government has done all it can to release him and takes matters into its own hands to get more information on Huseyin’s whereabouts today. Hosted by Yusuf Zine.
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Chapter I - Someone Named Guler Dilaver
17 years ago, Chinese authorities imprisoned a Canadian Uyghur refugee named Huseyin Celil on false charges of terrorism and murder. No one has heard from him since 2017. How can a Canadian disappear in China without recourse? Host Yusuf Zine finds a clue on Huseyin's last known location and asks how the Canadian government can be shut out of a citizen's trial abroad and why this consular case lost public attention.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Chapter II - Last Known Location
The elusive founder of the Xinjiang Victims Database gives more details on Huseyin Celil's whereabouts. A Google Earth satellite search offers a peek into what is inside northwestern China's "prison park." A former inmate recalls China's treatment of Uyghur prisoners. Finally, host Yusuf Zine considers a strategy that no one has attempted before to get updates on Huseyin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.