In July 2015, the Thai authorities sent 109 of them back to China. They did so even though Uyghurs and many human rights groups insisted that the Chinese government would treat them brutally.

The State Department said it was “combating China’s efforts to pressure governments to forcibly return Uyghurs and other groups to China.” By Sui-Lee Wee Reporting from Bangkok The United ...

Human rights advocates say at least some of the eight ethnic minority Uyghurs who remain in Thailand’s custody since authorities deported 40 others to China last month are at risk of the same fate.

BANGKOK (Reuters) -- Thailand's deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China last week was in the Southeast Asian country's best interest due to the possibility of retaliation from Beijing if the group was ...

BANGKOK, March 5 (Reuters) - Canada and the United States offered to resettle 48 ethnic Uyghurs held in detention in Thailand over the past decade, sources told Reuters, but Bangkok took no action ...

The 40 Uyghurs deported last week were part of a group of 300 who fled China and were arrested in Thailand in 2014. Some were sent back to China and others to Turkey, with the rest remaining in ...

The U.S. is "committed to combating China's efforts to pressure governments to forcibly return Uyghurs and other groups to China, where they are subject to torture and enforced disappearances ...

Thailand's Deportation of Uyghurs Was to Avert China 'Retaliation', Minister Says By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China last week was in the ...