Last February, Thai authorities in Bangkok loaded 40 Uyghur men into blacked-out trucks and forcibly returned them to China. Their fates remain unknown.
A year after the expulsion of members of this ethnic minority, official visits were suspended and there is no public information about the fate of those affected. Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday that 40 Uighur people, deported a year ago from Thailand to China, remain on an “unknown stand” following the suspension, last June, of the periodic visits to which the Thai government had committed itself. Bangkok authorities deported on 2…