BANGKOK: Thailand’s immigration chief vowed not to force refugees to return home “involuntarily”, after a Saudi woman’s desperate plea for resettlement drew global attention to a country that does not recognise asylum seekers.
The country is not a signatory to a United Nations convention on refugees and has long come under fire for holding them in detention centres or deporting them back to repressive regimes where they face prison or worse.
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