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The US State Department on Friday announced sanctions on an unknown number of current and former Thai officials for their role in deporting at least 40 Uyghur men to China despite worries that they ...

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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 ...

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I also am a Uyghur myself. The main focus of my testimony today is on the events of last week in Thailand involving the forced transfer of at least 40 Uyghur men from a Bangkok immigration ...

Thailand’s government deported 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China in a secretive overnight operation last week. The group was carried to Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport in trucks with covered ...

The United States (US) issued a security alert to its citizens in Thailand on Friday, warning of the possible risk of reprisal attacks after the kingdom deported dozens of Uyghurs to China.

For more than a decade, the Uyghur detainees have presented a diplomatic dilemma for Thailand, which is caught between China, its largest trading partner, and the U.S., its traditional military ally.