OTTAWA — The wife of a Canadian citizen imprisoned in China for nearly 14 years says the government must push the Chinese harder to get her husband home.The plight of Huseyin Celil has been almost forgotten with the spotlight now on the high-profile jailings of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in the wake of the Meng Wanzhou affair.
Last week, Canada’s Ambassador to China Dominic Barton said Celil was not a “Canadian citizenship holder,” while answering a question from Conservative MP Garnett Genuis at a House of Commons committee. Celil said she didn’t see Barton’s comments, but said there should be no doubt about her husband’s citizenship.But Kamila Celil said the government should move past requests for consular access and focus instead on getting her husband released on humanitarian grounds.The family have four children, one of whom Celil has never seen because of his arrest.
Her husband’s family had been visiting him in prison up until that point, but since then she has had no contact and can’t get in contact with them. “It is obviously extremely disappointing and it must be just devastating for his family and friends,” he said. “He seemed unaware of some of the basic facts about this case.”
By contrast, while the Chinese government has arbitrarily detained Spavor and Kovrig for over a year, they have at least granted the two men some access to Canadian officials usually on a monthly basis.
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