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Journalists visiting Uyghurs in Xinjiang region face Chinese surveillance

1 month ago | benarnews.org | Kunnawut Boonreak |Pimuk Rakkanam

Chinese officials escorted Thai journalists during a controlled visit to Xinjiang this week, insisting on viewing photos and deleting any they didn’t approve of, said a reporter who traveled to China with a delegation checking on Uyghurs deported from Thailand. Bangkok put 40 Uyghur men on a plane to Xinjiang on Feb. 27, saying Beijing had given assurances that they would not be mistreated and no third country had committed to take them.
Journalists visiting deported Uyghurs in Xinjiang face Chinese surveillance

1 month ago | rfa.org | Kunnawut Boonreak |Pimuk Rakkanam

BANGKOK – Chinese officials escorted Thai journalists during a tightly controlled visit to Xinjiang this week, insisting on viewing their photos and deleting any they didn’t approve of before they could be sent back to Thailand, said a journalist, who was a part of delegation invited by Beijing to showcase the well-being of Uyghurs from deported from Thailand. Thailand put 40 Uyghur men on a plane to Xinjiang on Feb.
Thai delegation heads to China to check on deported Uyghurs

1 month ago | benarnews.org | Kunnawut Boonreak |Pimuk Rakkanam

The Thai deputy prime minister was due to travel to the Xinjiang region on Tuesday to check that China was keeping a promise on the safety of 40 Uyghur men whom Thailand deported despite warnings from the U.S. and others that they faced torture if sent back. Thailand put the men on a plane to Xinjiang on Feb. 27, saying China had given assurances that they would not be mistreated and no third country had committed to take them.
Thai delegation heads to China to check on deported Uyghurs

1 month ago | rfa.org | Kunnawut Boonreak |Pimuk Rakkanam

BANGKOK – Thailand’s deputy prime minister was due to travel to the Xinjiang region on Tuesday to check that China is keeping a promise on the safety of 40 Uyghur men who Thailand deported despite warnings from the U.S. and others that they faced torture if sent back. Thailand put the men on a plane to Xinjiang on Feb. 27, saying China had given assurances that they would not be mistreated and no third country had committed to take them.
Thailand deports 40 Uyghurs to China despite fears of torture

1 month ago | benarnews.org | Kunnawut Boonreak |Pimuk Rakkanam

Thailand deported 40 Uyghurs to China on Thursday, ignoring warnings from the U.S., U.N. and rights groups that the men, who had been detained in Thailand for more than a decade, faced torture if sent back. The men of the mostly Muslim minority from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China have been held at Thailand’s Immigration Detention Center since 2014, after attempting to escape Beijing’s persecution through Thailand.
Thailand deports Uyghurs detained for more than a decade to China

1 month ago | rfa.org | Kunnawut Boonreak |Pimuk Rakkanam

BANGKOK – Thailand deported at least 40 Uyghurs to China on Thursday, ignoring calls from the U.S., the U.N. and rights groups not to send back the men, who had been detained in Thailand for more than a decade, because of the risk of torture. The deportation was shrouded in secrecy and Thai officials declined to comment on it. China’s state run CCTV confirmed it hours later. “Today, 40 Chinese illegal immigrants were repatriated from Thailand.
Chinese workers from Myanmar scam centers begin to fly home from Thailand

2 months ago | benarnews.org | Nontarat Phaicharoen |Pimuk Rakkanam

Hundreds of Chinese nationals who worked at online fraud centers in eastern Myanmar began to head home on Thursday from an airport in the Thai border town of Mae Sot, Thai officials said. The 200 Chinese nationals were brought on buses, 50 at a time, from Myanmar’s Myawaddy district, over a border bridge to Mae Sot, and then taken to a nearby airport for their flight home, witnesses said.
China repatriates 200 citizens from Myanmar scam centers amid crackdown

2 months ago | rfa.org | Nontarat Phaicharoen |Pimuk Rakkanam

MAE SOT, Thailand – Two hundred Chinese nationals were due to be flown to their homeland on Thursday in aircraft laid on by their government after leaving online fraud centers in an eastern Myanmar district on the border with Thailand, Thai officials said. The Chinese people were brought on buses, 50 at a time, from Myanmar’s Myawaddy district, over a border bridge to the Thai town of Mae Sot, and then taken to a nearby airport for their flight home, witnesses said.
Thailand says ‘no policy’ to deport 48 detained Uyghurs to China

Jan 23, 2025 | benarnews.org | Pimuk Rakkanam

Thailand has no plan to deport 48 Uyghurs who have languished for more than a decade in detention, a government spokesman said on Thursday, dismissing speculation that the men were about to be sent back to China where rights groups say they would face the risk of torture. The men from the mostly Muslim minority from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China have been held at Thailand’s Immigration Detention Center since 2014, after attempting to escape Beijing’s persecution through Thailand.
Thailand says ‘no policy’ to deport 48 detained Uyghurs to China

Jan 23, 2025 | rfa.org | Pimuk Rakkanam

BANGKOK – Thailand has no plan to deport 48 Uyghurs who have languished for more than a decade in detention, a government spokesman said on Thursday, dismissing speculation that the men were about to be sent back to China where rights groups say they would face the risk of torture.