Munich, July 27 -- The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has strongly condemned the detention and deportation of prominent Uyghur activist and former WUC President Dolkun Isa by Moroccan authorities, describing the incident as part of a broader pattern of transnational repression against Uyghur human rights defenders.

In a press release, the WUC said Dolkun Isa travelled to Casablanca on July 20 to attend the International Religious Freedom Summit, a regional conference on freedom of religion or belief.

The organisation alleged that Isa was stopped by immigration officials upon arrival, taken for secondary screening, detained overnight for around 15 hours with little explanation, and later deported to Germany, preventing him from participatin...