In Bangkok’s cramped detention centres, oppressive heat mixes with the sweat of fear. Refugees share stories and allegations of violent abuse, arrested and treated as criminals as they flee from danger in their home countries. In his first piece for the Globe, Caleb Quinley shares accounts from refugees who have been detained over the last two years and discusses the new allegations of physical abuse revealed in the Kingdom’s detention centres.

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