Thousands of Muslims gathered in a number of Muslim countries to protest against the persecution and injustice to which Uighur Muslims are subjected in northwest China's Xinjiang region.

The protesters demanded the Chinese government to stop its repressive measures against the Uighurs, and to guarantee them civil and political rights and their religious and cultural privacy as Muslims and from a culture different from other nationalities.

In front of the Chinese embassy in Jakarta
In Indonesia, hundreds of people came out from the Indonesian Islam Defenders Front after Friday prayers, with a demonstration in front of the Chinese embassy in Jakarta.

The demonstrators held banners calling for boycotting China and saving the Uighurs Muslims, in addition to banners such as we are with the Uighurs and China as a terrorist.

The Indonesian security forces surrounded the Chinese embassy building and temporarily cut off the roads leading to it because of the demonstration.

Near the Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur
In Malaysia, civil society organizations have called on the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to activate its charter on human rights to protect the Muslim Uighur minority in China.

Hundreds of representatives of organizations organized a vigil near the Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur to protest against Chinese violations against the Uighurs.

The protesters denounced what they described as the systematic persecution practiced by the Chinese authorities against the Muslim minority.

For its part, the Islamic Youth Movement of Malaysia said in a memorandum submitted to the Chinese embassy that the arrest and persecution of Uighurs had doubled since Beijing announced the law to combat extremism.

From Al-Aqsa Mosque to Gaza
In Palestine, the preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the city of Jerusalem, Youssef Abu Asnina, during Friday sermon, condemned China's violations against Uighur Muslims.

"Our brothers in East Turkestan are tortured and burned, just as the Qur'an is burned, and they are fighting and being subjected to persecution and torture," Abu Asnina said.

While dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip participated yesterday in a pause, in solidarity with the Uighurs Muslims.

Participants in the sit-in, organized by the Association of Palestine Scholars, in front of the Kataeb Mosque, held banners that read: “Failure of Muslims is forbidden by Sharia”, and “A Muslim is a brother of a Muslim .. He does not oppress him nor let him down.”

"We see what is happening to the Uighurs Muslims in China by the Chinese authorities, as a flagrant attack on the most basic features of human rights and a suppression of religious rights," said Marwan Abu Ras, the association's president, in a speech on the sidelines of the stand.

International Union of Muslim Scholars
In a related context, President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars Ahmed Al-Resouni said that China has been working hard to eradicate the Islam of the Uighurs by all coercive means, and for years began setting up camps in which millions of them were mobilized to erase every trace of their Islamic culture, belief and life.

Al-Risouni added, in an interview with the Moroccan news daily, that he listened personally to a number of Uighur Turkestan youth residing outside China, so they confirmed that Beijing was using all forms of oppression and coercion against their people under the pretext of stabilizing the Chinese identity and fighting extremism.

The President of the World Federation of Muslim Scholars called on all free people of the world to oppose this eradication war by all possible means, including boycotting Chinese goods.

It is reported that official statistics indicate that there are 30 million Muslims in China, of whom 23 million are Uighurs, while unofficial reports estimate the number of Muslims at nearly 100 million, or about 9.5% of the population.

Since 2009, the region has witnessed bloody violence in which about 200 people have been killed, according to official figures.