Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China despite torture fears

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Dozens of Uyghurs have been deported from Thailand to China in the face of warnings from human rights experts that there is a high risk they will suffer torture, enforced disappearance and imprisonment. Local media reported that several trucks with their windows covered were seen in the early hours of Thursday leaving the Bangkok immigration centre where 48 Uyghurs had been held during their more than 10 years in Thai detention. A few hours later, at 4.48am, an unscheduled China Southern Airlines flight took off from Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport, and it landed in Kashgar, in China’s Xinjiang region, about...