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Canada and US offered Uyghurs in Thailand asylum before deportation to China, sources say

Canada and the United States offered to resettle 48 ethnic Uyghurs detained in Thailand, but Thailand deported them to China due to concerns about upsetting China.
United Nations human rights experts indicated that returning the group would expose them to torture and ill-treatment, leading to widespread condemnation of their deportation.
An official from the U.S. State Department confirmed the offer to resettle the Uyghurs, and sources stated that Canada also offered asylum.
Turkey agreed to resettle women, children, and the elderly, indicating that Thailand chose to deport the Uyghurs to China to maintain relations with Beijing.

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Thailand's deportation of Uyghurs to China has echoes of 10 years ago

Thailand's recent deportations of Uyghurs to China have eerie parallels with a large deportation in 2015, in which the country bowed to Beijing, writes historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

2 days ago·Washington, United States

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The Epoch Times

Thailand Deported Uyghurs Over China Retaliation Fears, Minister Admits

Thailand deported Uyghur refugees to China last week in fear of possible “retaliation” from the Chinese regime, a Thai minister said on Thursday. This comes as the Southeast Asian country has faced condemnation after its government sent some 40 Uyghur asylum seekers back to China on Feb. 27. The deportation was carried out despite an earlier warning from a U.N. human rights expert that the group was “at real risk of torture or other cruel, inhum…

3 days ago·New York, United States

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Time Magazine

U.S. Disputes Thai Claim for Deporting Uyghurs to China

BANGKOK — The United States and other countries made repeated offers to Thailand to resettle more than three dozen Uyghur men before they were deported back to China, where rights groups fear they may face torture and other abuse, the U.S. State Department said Friday. The 40 Uyghurs, who had been in Thai custody since 2014 after fleeing state repression of their minority group in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, were whisked away from a Ba…

3 days ago·United States

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The Hamilton Spectator

US says multiple offers were made to resettle Uyghurs before Thailand deported them back to China

BANGKOK (AP) — The United States and other countries made repeated offers to Thailand to resettle more than three dozen Uyghur men before they were deported back to China, where rights groups fear they may face torture and other abuse,…

3 days ago·Hamilton, Canada

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Reuters

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Canada and US offered Uyghurs in Thailand asylum before deportation to China, sources say

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 for fear of upsetting China, where they were covertly deported last week.

4 days ago·United Kingdom

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