Niluper says she has been living in agony. A Uyghur refugee, she has spent the past decade hoping her husband would join her and their three sons in Turkey, where they now live. The family was detained in Thailand in 2014 after fleeing increasing repression in their hometown in China's Xinjiang province. She and the children were allowed to leave Thailand a year later. But her husband remained in detention, along with 47 other Uyghur men.

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Forty eight men detained since they fled China years ago risk being deported, rights groups say.

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'Hell on earth': Deportation looms for Uyghurs held in Thailand

By Helen Regan and Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — International pressure is mounting on Thailand – including from the new US administration – over the fate of dozens of Uyghur men held in detention for more than a decade, following reports the Thai government planned to deport the group to China. United Nations experts on Tuesday urged Thailand to “immediately halt the possible transfer,” warning the men were at “real risk of torture or other crue…

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Thailand’s government insists there are no immediate plans to deport the 48 detainees, who fled China and were arrested in Thailand in 2014.

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BANGKOK: Thai authorities denied on Wednesday (Jan 22) there was an immediate plan to send back to China 48 Uyghurs held in the country's detention centres, after UN experts warned the group could face torture if they return. The Uyghurs fled China – which has been accused of grave human rights abus

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A group of 48 ethnic minority Muslims who fled Chinese persecution have been held in Thailand for nearly 11 years

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United Nations (UN) experts have urged Thailand not to deport 48 Uyghurs to China and to treat people deprived of their liberty more humanely.

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BANGKOK, Jan 22 — Thai authorities denied today there was an immediate plan to send back to China 48 Uyghurs held in the country’s detention centres, after UN experts warned the group could face torture if they return. The Uyghurs fled China — which has been accused of grave human rights abuses in Xinjiang region against the ethnic group — more than a decade ago and live in constant fear of being sent back. Rights groups have said the Thai gover…

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