{"id":3142,"date":"2016-11-15T03:08:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T03:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2016\/11\/15\/amnesty-international-oakville-film-screening-huseyin-celil-nov-14\/"},"modified":"2016-11-15T03:08:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T03:08:33","slug":"amnesty-international-oakville-film-screening-huseyin-celil-nov-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/amnesty-international-oakville-film-screening-huseyin-celil-nov-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International Oakville film screening on Huseyin Celil on Nov. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International Oakville is hosting a movie screening on Monday, Nov. 14 to help bring more awareness to its mission to free prisoner of conscience Huseyin Celil.<\/p>\n<p>Oakville Beaver<br \/>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bNov 12, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International Oakville is hosting a movie screening on Monday, Nov. 14 to help bring more awareness to its mission to free prisoner of conscience Huseyin Celil.<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian citizen, born in China, Celil is currently servicing a life sentence in that country while his wife and four sons live in Burlington.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested on a family trip to Uzbekistan in 2006 and deported to China. A native Uighur from northwest China, Celil worked on human rights for his people in the 1990s before he fled the country.<\/p>\n<p>He came to Canada and Burlington in 2001 as a refugee from Turkey . Three of his four children, aged six to 15, were born in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese consider Celil to be a Chinese national and do not recognize his 2005 Canadian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested for what his family and supporters say are trumped-up terrorism charges.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty Oakville has been working on Celil\u2019s case since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Its screening of the National Film Board movie&nbsp;<em>Uighurs: Prisoners of the Absurd&nbsp;<\/em>will be held at 7 p.m. at Film.Ca Cinemas, 171 Speers Rd. Admission is by donation.<\/p>\n<p>Celil\u2019s wife, Kamila will be in attendance at the screening.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnestyoakville.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.amnestyoakville.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International Oakville is hosting a movie screening on Monday, Nov. 14 to help bring more awareness to its mission to free prisoner of conscience Huseyin Celil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}