US Sanctions Thai officials for deportation of ujgur in cinema | News
Thailand defends the deportation decision, as we say that it will impose visa restrictions on the official scriptures in deportations.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced sanctions against unidentified number of officials in Thailand for deporting at least 40 ujgur In China last month, despite concern, they could be persecuted.
Rubio said in a statement on Friday that he immediately imposed visa limitations to the current and former officials who are responsible or prescribed in deportations. No Thai official has been appointed.
For years, groups for real accused China of widespread abuse, including Mass detention of ujgurMostly a Muslim ethnic minority of about 10 million people in the western region of Xinjiang. Beijing rejects these claims.
“We advocate the fight against Chinese efforts to press the governments to forcibly return Uyghurs and other groups in China, where they are subject to torture and implementing disappearances,” Rubio said.
The Thai Foreign Ministry on Saturday announced that it repeatedly explained with countries that had conveyed concern about the safety of men for which China assured that they would be unharmed and that Thailand would follow their well -being.
“Thailand has always supported the long tradition of humanitarianism, especially in the assistance of displaced persons from different countries for more than half a century and will continue to do so,” the Ministry states.
Thai defense ministers and justice said they were scheduled for a trip next week to visit men in China. Numerous Thai journalists have been invited to join them.
The Thai authorities are in custody of more than 300 ujgur who fled from China. Until February, there were 48 oppression in Thai custody when the authorities had prepared them to return them to China, despite the calls of Thai laws and international officials that they did not.
Rubio condemned the return of “in the strongest possible conditions”, saying that “the Uyghurs faced persecution, forced work and torture” in China.
In Facebook posts, the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok said that 40 Chinese nationals who were “smuggled” were returned to Xinjiang on a rental flight and that “they all returned home and reunited with their families after more than 10 years.”
Rubio was a longtime critic of Beijing, and in 2020 the Chinese government has twice sanctioned his support in Ujgur rights and people in Hong Kong.