Japan asks for alleged thief’s repatriation

Monday, 17 September 2012
Cheang Sokha
The Phnom Penh Post

A Japanese man charged with a multi-million dollar robbery in Tokyo last year is facing a one-way ticket home courtesy of Cambodian authorities.

National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith said police arrested Kenji Nishizawa, 44, in Preah Sihanouk province on Friday at the request of the Japanese government and are weighing his deportation, adding that Nishizawa was accused of stealing 600 million yen (US$7.7 million) from Japanese security company Nichigetsu Keibi Hosho as well as assault in May 2011.

“[Nishizawa] is now being held at Ministry of Interior’s Immigration Department,” Chantharith told the Post.

Exile group presses China on Uighur deportees

Friday, January 27, 2012
AFP

...the UN special rapporteur on torture called the expulsion from Cambodia of the Uighurs "a blatant violation" of anti-torture rules...

BEIJING — An exile group has urged Beijing to explain the fate of 20 ethnic Uighurs who escaped to Cambodia but were deported back to China, amid reports some were sentenced to death or life in jail.

The deportees, members of the mainly Muslim minority Uighur group who have long complained of oppression in Xinjiang, fled China after ethnic rioting in the remote, northwestern region in 2009.

They applied for UN refugee status in Cambodia, but were forcibly repatriated back to China in December 2009, in a move that triggered strong international condemnation.

Cambodia's decision to deport the Uighurs was quickly followed by a 1.2-billion-dollar aid and loan package from Beijing. China has rejected accusations of a link between the two.

[Uyghur] Deportees' Whereabouts Unknown [in China]

Several neighboring countries have extradited Uyghurs to China in recent years. (RFA)

Chinese authorities remain mum over Uyghurs repatriated from Malaysia.

2011-09-15
Radio Free Asia

The whereabouts of 11 Uyghurs deported by Malaysia to China are still unknown nearly one month after their extradition, though Beijing is required by law to inform family members of their jailing.

“Yes, he was captured and deported back to China. So far, we have no information about whether he is dead or alive,” said the father of Kurban Haji, 28, who was part of the group deported in mid-August after being accused by Malaysian immigration officials of involvement in a human-trafficking ring.

Siajahmat Haji said his friends and family at home in western Xinjiang region's Hotan city have been searching for his son since his deportation, but have had no luck finding him.

“I’ve asked my relatives to look for him through the local government and relevant places. They said they had no information about him,” Siajahmat Haji told RFA from Saudi Arabia where he was traveling with his wife.

Cambodia Deports American National For Allegedly Making Threat To US Embassy

2008-02-20
AP

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Cambodia will deport an American man who was arrested after allegedly making a comment threatening the security of the U.S. Embassy, a senior police official said Wednesday (20 Feb).

The man told police he was a U.S. war veteran and was venting his anger over insufficient support he has received from the American government, said Lt. Gen. Sok Phal, a deputy chief of the national police. He declined to reveal his name.

Sok Phal added, however, that the man - arrested Tuesday (19 Feb) night - appeared disoriented.

"We will deport him and ban him from entering Cambodia again," Sok Phal said.

The arrest occurred as part of an investigation into a purported threat that prompted the deployment of additional Cambodian security personnel around the embassy in the capital, Phnom Penh, Monday (18 Feb) night.

Embassy spokesman Jeff Daigle said more guards were brought to the embassy after it received information concerning security. He declined to discuss the nature of the information or how it was obtained and would not comment on the arrest.

Daigle said the embassy did not feel the information amounted to a threat, but that the Cambodian police decided "to put a few extra officers around the embassy just for that evening."