Canada and US ‘offered Uyghurs in Thailand asylum’

[Bangkok Post] - 03/5/2025

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.



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