Stockholm - Some 150 people, mainly Uighurs, Thursday protested against the ongoing clampdown and unrest in western China where Uighurs and Han Chinese groups have clashed. After speeches near parliament, the protesters marched to the Chinese embassy where two protesters were detained after throwing stones at police but there were no injuries, a police spokeswoman told the German Press Agency dpa.
Three other protesters were arrested for rioting, she added.
"We share the pain and sorrow that my brothers and sisters feel over what is happening," Mehmet Kaplan, a Turkish-born member of parliament for the opposition Green Party, told protesters.
"This has been ongoing for decades," Kaplan said in Swedish before switching to Turkish, adding that the Uighurs were treated as "third class citizens."
Protesters waved blue and white flags and placards, chanted slogans against the Chinese government and called for the international community to intervene in Xinjiang.
A 26-year-old Uighur, who has applied for asylum in Sweden, told the German Press Agency
