Will, a National Taiwan University student who is from the United States, said that he felt that it was his responsibility to "stand up for people who don't have a voice or who have been deprived of their rights even if it's in a small way."

Tashken Davlet, an outreach specialist with the Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project, said he wished that more people in Taiwan knew about the "Uyghur genocide and the nature of the Chinese Communist Party."

"We stand in solidarity for those are suppressed and deprived of freedom" because this was what Taiwanese have been through during the country's authoritarian period in the past, said Davlet, who is a Taiwanese-Uyghur activist.