China Exiles in Thailand Lose Hope, Fearing Beijing’s Long Reach

An immigration detention centre is pictured in Bangkok on January 22, 2025. Chanakarn Laosarakham / AFP

With tears rolling down his cheeks, detained Chinese political exile Zhou Junyi struggles to make his voice heard over dozens of families visiting Bangkok’s main immigration detention center.

Zhou’s China Democracy Party, an exile group, organized a commemoration on June 4 in Kanchanaburi, west of Bangkok, for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing.

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