diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index cd133a10c3..6d2efb22e7 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -1702,7 +1702,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
                 if refresh_header:
                     found = re.search(REDIRECT_REGEX, refresh_header)
             if found:
-                new_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, found.group(1))
+                new_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, unescapeHTML(found.group(1)))
                 self.report_following_redirect(new_url)
                 return {
                     '_type': 'url',