Original sentence: He became the subject of a controversial court case in 2006 when he was arrested in Uzbekistan, extradited to China against the objections of the Canadian government, and sentenced to life in prison on charges of terrorism.Huseyincan Celil is an Uyghur imam of Chinese and Canadian citizenship.The conviction was based  on his supposed identification with a man called Guler Dilaver, who had been wanted in Kyrgyzstan for terrorism charges
Edited sentence: Celil's family, Amnesty International, and the Canadian government have called for his release and objected to the Chinese government's handling of his case.. On April 19 2007 it was reported that a Chinese court had sentenced him to life imprisonment.He went on trial in China in August 2006; a Chinese court had previously sentenced him to death in absentia, but the Chinese government assured Canada that they would not apply the death penalty, and instead sentenced him to 15 years in prison.Huseyincan Celil is an Uyghur imam and owns both Chinese and Canadian citizenships.The governments of China, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan all say that 'Huseyincan Celil' is an alias for Guler Dilaver (born 1955), who had been wanted in Kyrgyzstan since 1998 for attacks on Chinese delegations; on this basis, Uzbekistan extradited Celil to China over the objections of the Canadian government