BANGKOK (AP) Human rights organizations urged Thailand on Thursday to improve conditions in its immigration detention facilities after a second asylum seeker from China’s Muslim Uyghur minority died in custody within two months.
Bangkok, Apr 27 (EFE).- Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the Thai authorities to “immediately” investigate the death of a Uyghur asylum seeker who had spent nine years in immigration detention, and called for an end to indefinite detention. In a statement, HRW said that the 40-year-old man, identified as Mattohti Mattursun (also known …
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Mattohti is the fifth Uyghur asylum seeker to die in Thai detention over the past nine years. In 2018, a 27-year-old man died of cancer at a Thai immigration detention facility after being detained there for four years. Another two Uyghur children died in 2014, according to media reports, including a three-year-old boy suffering from tuberculosis.
The death of an Uyghur detainee, Aziz Abdullah at Bangkok Immigration Detention Centre, is the epitome of the government mishandling of those escaping China