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Who are the 92 Detainees?
FIGURES
UPDATED April 20, 2008
At present time…
8 families
83 Sri Lankan et 9
Nepalese
51 refugees et 41
asylum seekers
20 children including 12 less than 10
years old,
and 9 less than 6 years old
Live in the detention centre of Bangkok immigration police (IDC).
For more details, please open :
the list of the
detainees*
the list of
the detained children*
*For safety and confidentiality reasons,
the identities of the imprisoned people are not mentioned in these documents,
but you can see their status, age and date of arrest
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They were
101, they now are 92, what happened to the other ones?
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26 of them have already
been resettled in some third countries
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Additional refugees and
asylum seekers were recently arrested
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Some of them, asylum
seekers when they were arrested, “chose”, after several months of
imprisonment without any hope of release, to go back to their country of
origin.
Let’s remind that UNHCR has no access to IDC
since April 2007, and can not make any status determination without
interviewing the detainees. The asylum seekers that are detained are
consequently stuck in a no rights’ land, without any proper access to
healthcare. That situation can sometimes “decide” the most vulnerable of
them (pregnant women, people suffering from various serious diseases) to go
back to their country of origin even if their situation will be very
hazardous over there.
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