Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of Uyghur detainees over to China while denying plans to do so in public, givin ...

The law against insulting the Thai monarchy has become a common tool for silencing Thai activists. Now, a foreign academic ...

Thailand sent back the group of Uyghurs in a secretive pre-dawn operation that drew a sharp rebuke from Western countries. The United States last week hit unnamed Thai officials with visa ...

In February 2023, the House of Commons unanimously approved a motion calling on federal immigration officials to bring 10,000 ...

who had said that Thailand’s decision to deport 40 Uyghurs to China was to avert potential fallout with China. “Thailand could face retaliation from China that would impact the livelihoods of ...

In 2014, Polat was among 220 Uyghurs arrested by the Thai police while attempting to cross into Malaysia. Prosecuted for illegal immigration, the group was later dispersed across detention centers ...

BANGKOK -- A photo of a beaming Phumtham Wechayachai, Thailand's defense minister, embracing a Uyghur family circulated this week as he led a high-level delegation to China, where the Thai ...

Thailand's dilemma The Uyghurs are a Turkic, majority Muslim ethnicity native to Xinjiang. After decades of conflict over suppression of their cultural identity, Beijing launched a brutal ...

Thailand sent back the group of Uyghurs in a secretive pre-dawn operation that drew a sharp rebuke from western countries. The US last week hit unnamed Thai officials with visa sanctions over the ...

The men deported last month were part of a larger group of Uyghurs detained in Thailand in 2014 after fleeing China. That left Thailand facing competing demands from Beijing and Washington.