AFP
WASHINGTON — 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.
The group has been taken to the Phnom Penh airport and is about to be put on a plane to Shanghai, said Henryk Szadziewski of the Uighur Human Rights Project in Washington.
"There is a plane ready to take them away," he said, adding that his organization had received the information from local sources in Cambodia.
US State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid told reporters, "we are deeply disturbed by reports the Cambodian government might forcibly return this group of Uighurs without the benefit of a credible refugee status determination process.
"We strongly urge the Cambodian government to honor its commitment under international law," he added.
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