Forgotten Uighurs locked up in Thailand face 'hell on earth'

Chalida Tajaroensuk says the detention of some 50 Uighurs in Thailand stems from their treatment as a “special security issue”. - AFP

BANGKOK (AFP): Almost a decade after fleeing China, more than 50 Uighurs are languishing in Thai detention facilities, living in constant fear of being sent back.

China has been accused of grave human rights abuses in Xinjiang against the Uighurs dating back to at least the 1990s, with the United States branding Beijing's treatment of the mostly Muslim minority a "genocide".