{"id":30913,"date":"2025-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/reports\/hrc58-oral-statement-during-item-3-general-debate-6463\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:42:22","slug":"hrc58-oral-statement-during-item-3-general-debate-6463","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/reports\/hrc58-oral-statement-during-item-3-general-debate-6463\/","title":{"rendered":"HRC58: Oral statement during Item 3 General Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/62a74de7409fec11e31fd6595d68242e.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Item 3:<\/b>General Debate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Speaker:<\/b>Claire Denman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you Mr President,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CSW is deeply concerned by situations of refoulement, and subsequent risk of arbitrary detention, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CSW condemns the deportation of 40 Uyghur men from Thailand to China on 27 February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As UN experts warned prior to the deportation,<sup>1<\/sup> returning these individuals to China would surely consign them to arbitrary detention in one of the so-called \u2018political re-education camps\u2019 in which the Chinese Communist Party has detained over one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs and members of other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We call on the Chinese Communist Party to ensure that these men are not detained or subjected to any form of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also urge the government of Thailand to halt the possible deportation of a remaining eight Uyghurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, we urge Thailand not to deport Vietnamese human rights activist Y Quynh Bdap to Vietnam, where he was \u2018convicted of terrorism offences in absentia\u2019 in a trial that did not meet fair trial guarantees, as part of the Vietnamese government\u2019s ongoing targeting of the Montagnard ethnic group and Montagnard rights organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If returned to Vietnam, Bdap is sure to be imprisoned, where he will likely face torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bdap has been granted refugee status by the UN Refugee Agency in Bangkok, and Thailand has no extradition agreement with Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also remind Prime Minister Pae-ton-tarn Shin-awat that a state does not have an obligation to return a refugee to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom, and therefore implore her not to authorise the extradition order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/csworguk.sharepoint.com\/sites\/AdvocacyShared\/Shared%20Documents\/Claire%20Denman\/UNITED%20NATIONS\/1.%20Human%20Rights%20Council\/HRC%20Regular%20Sessions\/HRC58\/Oral%20statements\/For%20the%20website\/HRC58%20-%20Oral%20Statement%20Item%203%20GD%20-%20CSW.docx#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\">[1]<\/a> UN OHCHR Press Release: Thailand must immediately halt deportation of 48 Uyghurs: China, January 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2025\/01\/thailand-must-immediately-halt-deportation-48-uyghurs-china-un-experts\">https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2025\/01\/thailand-must-immediately-halt-deportation-48-uyghurs-china-un-experts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSW is deeply concerned by situations of refoulement, and subsequent risk of arbitrary detention, cruel, inhuman and degrading 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