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 ...

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 ...

Two senior Thai government ministers traveled to China's northwestern Xinjiang region on March 19 to assess the conditions of dozens of Uyghurs deported from the kingdom last month. Thailand last ...

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 ...

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 last month sent at least 40 Uyghurs back after they had spent years in Thai detention facilities after fleeing China more than a decade ago. The move sparked international condemnation ...

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.

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 ...

Thai officials visited Xinjiang last week to meet some of the deported Uyghurs and said they are being treated well. They have also said the men returned voluntarily, despite evidence to the contrary.