16 households with numerous kids being held in Pattaya migration detention for overstaying visas Police and migration officers check a resort in Bang Lamung district of Chon Buri where they discovered 63 Chinese nationals, members of a self-exiled Christian church, who had overstayed their visas. (Photo: Chaiyot Pupattanapong) CHON BURI: Sixty-three Chinese nationals apprehended in Pattaya for overstaying their visas are members of a self-exiled Christian churchgoers lookingfor United Nations defense from spiritual persecution, their advocates state. Two Americans who haveactually been attempting to aid the group relocate to the United States have likewise been apprehended, the Wall Street Journal reported. Local authorities and migration officers rounded up 63 members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church on Thursday at the Long Lake Hillside Resort in Bang Lamung district. They were acting on details that numerous Chinese nationals hadactually been remaining there for a long time, stated Pol Col Thawee Kudthalaeng, chief of the Nong Phrue cops station. They were taken to a cops Immigration Bureau center in Pattaya where they stayed on Friday, the Journal reported, pricingquote church pastor Pan Yongguang and an American activist who hasactually been supporting the parish’s efforts to lookfor asylum. They were anticipated to be brought priorto an migration court for a deportation hearing however it was not clear how quickly this would takeplace. The group consists of 32 grownups and 31 kids from 16 households. They were holding Chinese passports and some had cards from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The c
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