Credit: RFA
Further to Cambodia’s forcible repatriation of 20 Uyghur refugees, Radio Free Asia reports that one of the deportees had a legal visa:
Aikebaerjiang Tuniyaz, 27, left China in March 2009 after serving a one-year jail term in Liudawan prison in Urumqi for allegedly “leaking secret information abroad.” Tuniyaz entered Thailand in early 2009 and sought asylum through the Bangkok office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)……. He obtained a visa through the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok and entered Cambodia legally, he said. Tuniyaz was in Cambodia legally when deadly ethnic rioting erupted in Urumqi on July 5 this year.
Beijing has claimed that the deported Uyghurs were involved in unspecified criminal activities and had illegally crossed China’s border.
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