Uyghur Abduweli Ayup argues that UNESCO, under pressure from China — a member of the U.N. Security Council — may have sought ...

BANGKOK: The United States issued a security alert to its citizens in Thailand on Friday (Feb 28), warning of the possible ...

Rights advocates had said the Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority in China, were “at real risk” of torture, imprisonment or even death if they were returned.

Despite international pleas that 40 Uyghurs could be tortured if sent back to China, Thai authorities whisked them away under ...

Thai lawmakers and international officials had urged the Thai government not to deport them, warning it would amount to a ...

In December 2009, Cambodia deported 20 Uyghur asylum-seekers back to China. Last December, in the first word about them in 15 years, a relative of one of the detainees in Turkey revealed to Radio Free ...

Thai lawmakers, activists, and lawyers believe a group of Uyghur men detained in Thailand for more than a decade may have ...

Britain is trying to discredit China's policy in the northwestern Xinjiang region, a spokesperson at China's embassy in ...

Thailand should be commended for managing the return of 40 Uyghurs to China, a deputy premier said on Friday, as his country ...

The men’s plight had become a high-profile test of Washington’s sway in Asia as it seeks to confront China.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) condemned Thailand's deportation of 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China on ...