UN declined offers to assist Uyghur asylum seekers detained in Thailand because they feared "China would get angry and reduce cooperation or donations to the agency" ( www.thenewhumanitarian.org )

The UN’s refugee agency rebuffed requests from the Thai government to assist 48 Uyghur asylum seekers from China who have been detained in life-threatening conditions in Thailand for more than 10 years, according to internal UNHCR documents seen by The New Humanitarian....