20 min
The Tangled Politics Keeping a Uyghur Man in Limbo The Deep Dive from The Walrus
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- News Commentary
This week we’ll hear from Annie Hylton. For the March/April issue of The Walrus, she takes a look at the complex case of Ayoob Mohammed. While escaping from China in 2001, Mohammed found himself in Afghanistan on the eve of 9/11. In the chaos that ensued, he was sold for bounty to US forces and sent to Guantánamo Bay. US officials maintained that Mohammed was a member of the Eastern Turkistan Independence Movement, allegedly a Uyghur terrorist group. Hylton takes listeners through Mohammed’s long journey from his birthplace in China to Guantánamo Bay to Albania, where he remains after two rejected attempts to join his family in Canada.
This week we’ll hear from Annie Hylton. For the March/April issue of The Walrus, she takes a look at the complex case of Ayoob Mohammed. While escaping from China in 2001, Mohammed found himself in Afghanistan on the eve of 9/11. In the chaos that ensued, he was sold for bounty to US forces and sent to Guantánamo Bay. US officials maintained that Mohammed was a member of the Eastern Turkistan Independence Movement, allegedly a Uyghur terrorist group. Hylton takes listeners through Mohammed’s long journey from his birthplace in China to Guantánamo Bay to Albania, where he remains after two rejected attempts to join his family in Canada.
20 min