Forgotten Uyghurs face ‘hell on earth’

Locked up: An immigration detention centre, where human rights activists believe that a group of Uyghurs are being detained, in the Sathorn area of Bangkok. — AFP

Almost a decade after fleeing China, more than 50 Uyghurs are languishing in Thai detention facilities, living in constant fear of being sent back.

China has been accused of grave human rights abuses in Xinjiang against the Uyghurs dating back to at least the 1990s, with the United States branding Beijing’s treatment of the mostly Muslim minority a “genocide”.