UN declined offers to assist Uyghur asylum seekers detained in Thailand because they feared "China would get angry and reduce cooperation or donations to the agency"
The UN’s refugee agency rebuffed requests from the Thai government to assist 48 Uyghur asylum seekers from China who have been detained in life-threatening conditions in Thailand for more than 10 years, according to internal UNHCR documents seen by The New Humanitarian....
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