A Uighur man who was facing imminent deportation to China on Saturday has been halted by the Qatari government while lawyers attempt to find a third-party country to accept him.
53-year-old Abulikemu Yusufu was returned to Doha’s Hamad International Airport after trying to enter Europe via Bosnia in late July, and was told he would be deported to China.
He had previously been living in Pakistan but moved on amid fears the Pakistani government would deport members of the ethnic minority to China, where they would be subject to surveillance and persecution.