A China Southern Airlines plane took off from Don Mueang Airport at 4:48 a.m., with a destination marked “unspecified” on the Flightradar24 system and landed at Kashgar Airport, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, about six hours later. In Bangkok, the petition was dismissed.

"Similar deportations have prompted violent retaliatory attacks in the past," a security alert posted on the embassy website said. "Most notably, in the wake of a 2015 deportation of Uyghurs from Thailand,

The German government and human rights organizations have criticized Thailand's deportation of a group of people belonging to the the Muslim Uighur minority to China, warning that they could face serious human rights abuses.