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NGO head checks up on Uyghur detainees
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 29/04/2025
» The People's Empowerment Foundation has expressed serious concerns over the plight of seven Uyghur people who are currently in jail in Thailand.
Last three Uyghurs 'resettled'
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 28/04/2025
» The remaining three Uyghurs held at Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Centre have been transferred for resettlement in a third country, effectively ending a diplomatic saga which spanned more than a decade.
Canada and US ‘offered Uyghurs in Thailand asylum’
By Panu Wongcha-um, Reuters, Published on 05/03/2025
» Canada and the United States offered to resettle 48 ethnic Uyghurs held in detention in Thailand over the past decade, sources have told Reuters, but Bangkok took no action for fear of upsetting China, where they were covertly deported last week.
Department of Corrections refutes detained Uyghurs' alleged letters calling for help
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/03/2025
» The Department of Corrections (DoC) has dismissed claims by an opposition MP that Uyghurs detained in Klongprem Prison sent letters opposing deportation to China.
Groups push for protection of dissident
Post Reporters, Published on 18/10/2024
» More than 30 civil society groups have banded together to demand the government refrain from extraditing Vietnamese refugee Y Quynh Bdap who is now imprisoned in Thailand.
UN ‘rebuffed requests to help Uyghurs’ in Thailand
Online Reporters, Published on 04/05/2024
» The United Nations’ refugee agency rebuffed unofficial requests from the Thai government to help 48 Uyghur asylum seekers from China who have been detained in Bangkok for a decade, partly out of concern about angering China, human rights activists say.
MFP, Fair seek refugee panel
Post Reporters, Published on 01/09/2023
» The Move Forward Party (MFP) and Fair Party are calling for the formation of a new House sub-committee to explore new ways to handle refugees living in temporary shelters across Mae Hong Son, Tak, Kanchanaburi and Ratchaburi.
Civilians, not military, 'should lead talks in South'
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 19/06/2023
» Peace efforts in the far South should be taken out of the military's hands and left to civilians and politicians to direct, according to Kannavee Suebsang, the FAIR Party's secretary-general and only MP-elect.
Karen fear Kaeng Krachan's World Heritage listing ends their hopes
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 08/10/2021
» BANG KLOI, Phetchaburi: When Gib Tonnarmpech and her family were forced to leave their home in Kaeng Krachan National Park by authorities, they walked more than two days in dense forest with about 60 other families to get to their resettlement site.
Kaeng Krachan added to world heritage list
Online Reporters, Published on 26/07/2021
» Unesco has added the Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex in Western Thailand to the World Heritage List hours after a protest against it was held in Bangkok.