Riyadh: As we all know of the ongoing worldwide protest by human rights groups, Saudi Arabia cancelled the deportation of four Uyghur individuals to China, one of whom was a woman and her 13 years old daughter.
The name of the woman is Buheliqiemu Abula, and her 13 years old teenage daughter were detained near Mecca in Saudi Arabia on March 31 and told by police that they are facing deportation to China with other two Uyghur men already held, as per the UK-based human rights organization, Amnesty International.
The planned deportation was planned to take place on Wednesday evening. Yet, the move was ultimately arrested.
“The deportation of the four #Uyghurs didn’t go ahead last night, but they are still at imminent risk. Governments with diplomatic ties to Saudi Arabia must continue to urge authorities to halt the deportation and allow them to go to a country of their choice,” Amnesty International informed in a tweet.
🚨BREAKING: The 4 Uyghurs are believed to be booked for deportation tonight to Guangzhou. If sent to China, they will face arbitrary detention, persecution and risk of torture. Saudi authorities must halt all plans to deport the Uyghurs to China.
— Amnesty International (@amnesty) April 13, 2022
Abula is the ex-wife of Nuermeiti Ruze, who, together with Aimidoula Waili, has been held in Saudi Arabia without charge since November 2020.
According to the human rights group, that Religious scholar Aimidoula Waili and his friend Nuermaimaiti Ruze have been detained in Saudi Arabia for two years, since November 2020, without explanation.
According to Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia is required to not return anyone to a country where they would face a real risk of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, persecution, or other serious human rights violations under the customary international law principle of nonrefoulement, and as a State Party to the United Nation Convention against Torture.
According to ‘Lynn Maalouf’ Amnesty International Depuy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa “, Forcibly pushing these four Uyghur people would be an extreme violation of Saudi Arabia’s obligations under global law. The Saudi authorities did not even think about sending them to China, where they would be subjected to arbitrary detention, persecution, and possibly torture.
Since 2017, at least 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities have been incarcerated in a network of Xinjiang detention centres, ostensibly to prevent religious extremism and terrorist operations.
The United States (US) and parliaments of many Western countries have announced that China’s repression and maltreatment of the Uyghurs amount to genocide and crimes against humanity, as per Radio Free Asia.