Using the official records of Bosnia's Border Police, the Service for Foreigners, statistics from the Ministry of Security, information from the organization "Vaša prava" and the Uyghur community in Istanbul, Detektor.ba web portal confirmed that from 2018 to date, at least 17 Uyghurs have tried to pass through Bosnia and Herzegovina or stay in it. 

Two of them left the country on their own after several weeks in reception camps, five went through reception centres to Europe, while ten of them were returned from the border. 

The Asylum Sector of the BiH Security Ministry denied the mistreatment of Uyghurs but also confirmed that BiH does not have a special policy to protect this ethnic group, Detektor.ba wrote. 

In 2021, Bosnia and Herzegovina signed a joint statement at the United Nations (UN) expressing concern about the violation of rights of the Uyghur people, a majority Muslim ethnic group living in several countries, with the largest number of about 11 million of them living in the Chinese autonomous province of Xinjiang in the northwest of the country.