Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Bangkok [Thailand], March 26 (ANI): Fair Party MP Kannavee Suebsueng has condemned the Thai government's decision to forcibly repatriate 40 Uyghurs in February, stating that it contradicts the ...