30 Jan, 2010
Radio Australia
A leading human rights group has called on China to account publicly for the fate of Uighurs forcibly repatriated from Cambodia last month.
The 20 Muslim Uighurs had sought asylum in Cambodia after fleeing China in the wake of an eruption of ethnic rioting in China's Xinjiang region.
Bowing to Chinese pressure, Cambodia deported them in December in what UN human rights experts charged was a blatant violation of the world body's refugee and anti-torture conventions.
Human Rights Watch says it's received an unconfirmed report this month that some of the Uighurs have been sentenced to death by a court in Xinjiang.
Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch says Uighur asylum seekers sent back to China by Cambodia have disappeared.
She has called on Beijing to make a public statement about their status and allow them to meet with family members and UN representatives.
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