<p>Muslim people in Thailand have condemned the Thai junta government for deporting Uighur refugees to China, pointing out that it is a violation of international law.</p>
<p>On Friday, 10 July 2015, a group of Muslim people in Thailand issued a statement condemning the Thai junta’s forced deportation of Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority from western China, back to their supposed country of origin.</p>
<p>The statement was signed by Zakariya Amataya, a well-known Muslim poet in Thailand and Ekkarin Tuansiri, a political science lecturer at Prince of Songkhla University.</p>
By Human Rights Watch |
<p>The government of <a href="http://hrw.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8%2c83%3a6-%3eLCE593719%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4432086&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=81530&Action=Follow+Link">Thailand</a> should stop forcibly sending people of Turkic ethnicity to <a href="http://hrw.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8%2c83%3a6-%3eLCE593719%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4432086&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=81529&Action=Follow+Link">China</a>, where they face persecution, Human Rights Watch said today.</p>
By Human Rights Watch |
<p>(Bangkok, May 28, 2015) – Governments gathering in Bangkok on May 29, 2015, to discuss the Southeast Asia <a href="http://www.hrw.org/reports/2009/05/26/perilous-plight-0" target="_blank">boat people crisis</a> should reach binding agreements to save people at sea, permit them to disembark without conditions, and ensure unimpeded access for United Nations agencies to protect the rights of asylum seekers, Human Rights Watch said today. <br /></p>
By Thaweeporn Kummetha and Pinpaka Ngamsom |
<div>The boat people from the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh has become a hot potato among the Southeast Asian countries. Prachatai talked with Vivian Tan, the spokesperson of the the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Office in Bangkok, about the role of UNHCR in the issue. </div>
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<div>Thai royalists protested in front of the New Zealand Embassy in Bangkok, pressuring the New Zealand government to extradite a lèse majesté suspect living in exile there and threatening to step up measures if the New Zealand government do not comply with their demands.</div>
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<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f27d0e6-e683-9158-0bc6-428ab77f92a2">After being attacked by Thai ultra-royalists who who resented the UNHCR for the alleged role in givingถ a lese majeste suspect refugee status, the Thailand’s branch of UNHCR closed down its facebook fan page.</span></p>
<div>After the media reported that the UNHCR had granted a high-profile lèse majesté suspect refugee status, Thai royalists fiercely attacked the UNHCR on its Thai Facebook page, saying they would stop funding the organization and threatening to harass its funding officers.</div>
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<div>Thai royalists threatened to withdraw monthly donations to the UN refugee agency in Thailand over the agency’s role in giving refugee status to a redshirt political activist Ekapop L., (aka.
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By Human Rights Watch |
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<p>Extortion, Discrimination, Abuse Await Those Resettled Under Australian Deal</p>
By Human Rights Watch |
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<p><strong>Phnom Penh Has Poor Record on Refugee Protection, Basic Rights</strong></p>
By Benjamin Zawacki |
<p>Déjà vu is a French term meaning “already seen”. Refoulement is also French, with a literal meaning of “force back”. Upon receiving a report on Christmas day that Thai authorities had just forced back 166 refugees to Myanmar, I knew that I had seen this before—on Christmas 2009 in fact. </p>