A group of almost a hundred Pakistani refugees and asylum seekers, including several dozen children and a baby born in detention, will be released on bail Monday.
The Thai Committee for Refugees, which helped organise the release, said the 96 people — most of whom were arrested in December — from Pakistan’s Ahmadi Muslim community endure violent persecution in their home country.
Veerawit Tianchainan, the organisation’s executive director, said 34 children under 12 years of age are among those detained in cramped rooms that he said were filled with up to 150 people despite being designed to hold just 40 inmates.
He said one baby was born inside the facility and described conditions as “unhygienic and very crowded”.
“Children were separated from their mothers or fathers and that kind of condition, psychologically, is very, very bad,” he said, explaining that families were split up because men and women are held separately.
The organisation has paid a 5 million baht bail bond and undertaken to provide for the welfare of the Ahmadi as they await the results of resettlement applications, mainly to the United States.
Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Pakistan, Thailand
Alhamdolillah – All praise belong to God the Almighty. May Allah bless these Ahmadis and also may bless the authorities who have helped Ahmadis to get out of this difficult time. Sincerest thanks to the authorities and people involved in their release.