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 a second Uyghur man who spent years in a Bangkok detention centre underscores the need for Thai authorities to end the indefinite detention of asylum seekers, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.