Canadian Parliament Urges Government to Accept 10,000 Uyghur Refugees 

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October 27, 2022

According to a report released in June 2021 by the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and Uyghur Human Rights Project, there were 1,546 cases of detention and deportation of Uyghurs in at least 28 countries between 1997 and March 2021.

“[M]ost notably in much of the Middle East and North Africa with 647 cases, and in South Asia with 665 cases,” the report said. “The dataset contains 1,151 cases of Uyghurs being detained in their host country and 395 cases of Uyghurs being deported, extradited or rendered back to China.”

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