At a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, members of Parliament and human-rights advocates mark the twentieth anniversary of the abduction and imprisonment in China of Huseyin Celil, a Canadian citizen and Uyghur rights advocate.

According to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre, Huseyin Celil is a Canadian citizen and Uyghur rights activist, who fled prison and torture in China after speaking up for Uyghur religious, cultural, and linguistic rights.

In 2006, was illegally detained in Uzbekistan, sent to China, charged with terrorism and splitism, and sentenced to death, which was later changed to life in prison, much of which in solitary confinement. No one has made contact since 2016, when the crackdown against Uyghurs began to escalate.

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