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After Cambodia, Laos deports Uyghurs to China

Dec. 28 (Washington Post): Laos has deported seven Uighurs who fled China after ethnic riots last year, raising concerns over the treatment of Uighurs forcibly returned to face prosecution by the Chinese government. The Laotian government arrested Memet Eli Rozi, his wife Gulbahar Sadiq, and their five children in the country in March and deported them back to China.

In Dec. 2009, Cambodia deportated of 20 Uighurs who had sought asylum there after fleeing deadly ethnic riots in Xinjiang earlier that year.

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