A decade of uncertainty: the fate of detained Uyghur refugees in Thailand

FILE - Detainees stand behind cell bars at the police Immigration Detention Center in central Bangkok on Jan. 21, 2019 FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2022 photo, an immigration detention center where human rights activists believe that a group of Uyghurs are being detained, is pictured in the Sathorn area of Bangkok.

Dozens of Uyghurs who fled China a decade ago and have been indefinitely detained in Thailand are getting conflicting explanations from the U.N. refugee agency and Thai authorities on why their cases are still in limbo.