
Shockingly, the Thai government remains tight-lipped about the fate of Uyghur refugees who have been held in detention for eight years after the recent deaths of two of them.
After the death of Mattohti Mattursun, a 40-year-old Uyghur refugee, in a Bangkok hospital on April 21, such silence is unacceptable. This is the second case after Aziz Abdullah, 49, died in February at a notoriously overcrowded facility in central Bangkok.