{"value":{"id":1756847,"askingMemberId":4371,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-20T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-23T00:00:00","uin":"24879","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to his Thai counterpart on reported plans to deport 43 Uyghur men to China.","answeringBodyId":208,"answeringBodyName":"Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4523,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-27T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The UK government is seriously concerned about reports that detained Uyghurs in Thailand are at risk of imminent refoulment.</p><p>We have raised the issue directly with the Thai Government and continue to work closely with likeminded partners. We continue to urge Thailand, as a State Party to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and at a minimum in accordance with refugee law obligations under customary international law not to undertake the refoulment of these individuals to China.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"China: Uyghurs","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1756847","method":"GET"}]}