Cambodia has announced it would expel 20 Muslim Uighurs who sought refuge after unrest in China's Xinjiang region, despite protests from the US and rights activists. UNHCR spokeswoman Kitty McKinsey (pictured) told AFP that as signatories to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, Cambodia should not force the Uighurs to return to China.
(AFP/File/Ken Shimizu)
Chinese Muslim women get their bags checked as they arrive at a mosque for the Eid al-Fitr prayers in Beijing on September 2009. Cambodia is sending 20 Chinese Muslims who fled there after July unrest in Xinjiang back to China where they face possible persecution, a US-based Uighur rights organization said Friday.
(AFP/File/Wang Zhao)
Ethnic Uighur women grab at a riot policeman as they protest in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province in July 2009. A group of 20 Muslim Uighurs who were seeking refuge in Cambodia after unrest in the Chinese region of Xinjiang were deported back to China late Saturday, an interior ministry spokesman said.
(AFP/File/Peter Parks)
File picture shows Chinese troops in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Cambodia said Saturday it would expel 20 Muslim Uighurs who sought refuge after unrest in China's Xinjiang region, despite protests from the United States and rights activists.
(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)
Cambodia has announced it would expel 20 Muslim Uighurs who sought refuge after unrest in China's Xinjiang region, despite protests from the US and rights activists. UNHCR spokeswoman Kitty McKinsey (pictured) told AFP that as signatories to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, Cambodia should not force the Uighurs to return to China. (AFP/File/Ken Shimizu)
Chinese Muslim women get their bags checked as they arrive at a mosque for the Eid al-Fitr prayers in Beijing on September 2009. Cambodia is sending 20 Chinese Muslims who fled there after July unrest in Xinjiang back to China where they face possible persecution, a US-based Uighur rights organization said Friday. (AFP/File/Wang Zhao)
Ethnic Uighur women grab at a riot policeman as they protest in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province in July 2009. A group of 20 Muslim Uighurs who were seeking refuge in Cambodia after unrest in the Chinese region of Xinjiang were deported back to China late Saturday, an interior ministry spokesman said. (AFP/File/Peter Parks)
File picture shows Chinese troops in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Cambodia said Saturday it would expel 20 Muslim Uighurs who sought refuge after unrest in China's Xinjiang region, despite protests from the United States and rights activists. (AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)
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