Amid an immigration application to allow her husband to come to Canada from Albania, Aierken was last week admitted to hospital in Montreal. Originally from China’s far-western Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Aierken moved to Canada with the help of her father more than a decade ago. Aierken came back for good in 2016, though she has made two short visits to see her husband since then. “If he was guilty, they never would have let him go.”Aierken nonetheless thinks it was time Mohammed spent in Guantanamo Bay that’s keeping her husband out of Canada. Mohammed’s case is one of a few in which Uighurs who were held in Guantanamo Bay, and cleared of wrongdoing, are trying to reunite with family in Canada.

Source: thestar August 01, 2020 15:15 UTC