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Indonesian Muslims protest China's treatment of Uighurs

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AP Jakarta
Last Updated : Dec 27 2019 | 5:50 PM IST

More than a thousand Muslims marched to the heavily guarded Chinese Embassy in Indonesia's capital on Friday to protest China's treatment of its Uighur Muslims.

The protesters, many wearing blue headbands reading "Save Uighurs", chanted "Get out, China!" and unfurled Indonesian and Uighur flags as they marched to the embassy in downtown Jakarta.

In a speech, Yusuf Martak, a protest organizer, condemned the "oppression, torture and cruelty by the Chinese Communist government against brother Uighur Muslims".

Martak, a leader of a conservative Muslim alliance that held mass protests against Jakarta's ethnic Chinese governor, a minority Christian, in 2016, demanded an end to mass detentions of Uighur Muslims in China's Xinjiang region.

"We Muslims oppose all forms of colonialism and oppression of Uighurs," said another speaker, Slamet Marif, standing on the top of a truck.

The crowd chanted "Get out, Communists!" as some waved banners saying, "We stand with Uighurs."

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First Published: Dec 27 2019 | 5:50 PM IST

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