Thai lawmakers, activists, and lawyers believe a group of Uyghur men detained in Thailand for more than a decade may have been deported to China early Thursday after trucks with covered windows were seen leaving a detention center and China said Chinese citizens had been repatriated from the Southeast Asian country.
The deportation had been scheduled for early Thursday morning, according to a Thai government official, a foreign official, and three people in touch with Thai authorities. All five people declined to be named to disclose sensitive internal information.
