Aziz Abdullah, a forty nine yr old Uyghur asylum seeker, died after being detained for years on the Bangkok Immigration Detention Centre. His dying sparked outrage from human rights teams. They are calling for a humane resolution for the plight of round 50 Uyghur asylum seekers who have been detained in Thailand for about 9 years.
Abdullah, a farmer from southwestern Xinjiang, arrived in Thailand in late 2013 with seven kids, alongside with his brother and wife, who was pregnant on the time. The group was en path to Turkey by way of Malaysia once they have been stopped in southern Thailand.
Activists just like the director of the Refugees Centre of the World Uyghur Congress claim that Thai authorities refused to ship Abdullah to the hospital, even though he had been very sick for practically a month.
“He was coughing and vomiting blood, he couldn’t eat. Don’t worry at the IDC examined him but mentioned his situation was normal.”
Authorities lastly relented only when he collapsed. But he was pronounced useless soon after arriving at the hospital. The dying certificates stated it was a lung infection.
Following Abdullah’s demise, authorities contacted the workplace of the Chularatchamontree, the chief of Thailand’s Muslim neighborhood, to arrange for his instant burial, in accordance with Islamic customized.
China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity in opposition to Uyghur Muslims and different minorities in Xinjiang. Human rights teams imagine more than one million people have been held in a vast network of detention camps in current years.
The Thai authorities have provided all Uyghur asylum seekers within the bureau’s custody with food, medication, and other necessities. However, activists are concerned concerning the conditions in which they are being held and are calling for a solution to their plight..