Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9818983
Ten years ago, on March 13, 2014, Thai immigration officials patrolling in Songkhla, near the Thai-Malaysia border, arrested a group of 220 persons in the jungle, kicking off this saga that continues today. In July 2015, Thai authorities forcibly returned 109 ethnic Uyghur men from immigration detention centers across Thailand at the request of the Chinese government.
Without giving the Uyghurs any opportunity to seek asylum, as required under international human rights law, the authorities rounded those 109 men up from detention centers around the country and handcuffed, blindfolded, and handed them over to Chinese officials in Bangkok. Beijing sent a plane with Chinese police officials to pick them up, and during the handover, treated the Uyghurs like dangerous criminals, degrading them, and filming them in blindfolds and handcuffs. The men then disappeared into China’s opaque, abusive penal system, never to be seen again.