Published: 23 Dec 2014 at 06.00
A 3-year-old suspected Uighur boy died in a Hat Yai hospital yesterday, after cramped conditions in a southern detention centre where he was held alongside adult Uighurs complicated his ailments.
Seyyid Abdulkadir Tumturk, a Turkish national speaking on behalf of the boy's family, said he wanted to bring the body back home to the boy's father, who had recently escaped to Turkey.
The boy was one of 21 children from a larger group of 131 suspected Uighur immigrants who have been detained at Sadao and Padangbesar border checkpoints in Songkla since early this year. Ilham Mahmut, chairman of the Japan Uyghur Association, pleaded with Thailand to resolve overcrowding in its immigration detention centres.
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