THE HAGUE - FOURTEEN people will go on trial on Thursday in The Hague following a protest in which stones were hurled at the Chinese embassy following deadly unrest in China's Xinjiang region, authorities said.

At the end of the hearing a magistrate will hand down an immediate judgment against the defendants, who will be tried in two batches of seven on charges of violence against people and property, a court official said.

Spokesman Marianne Goet said three more would stand trial at a later date, while prosecutors were still studying the cases of 15 other demonstrators.

A total of 142 people were arrested at Monday's protest called by the Association of East Turkmenistan Uighurs in the Netherlands, when rocks and cobble stones were hurled over the walls around the embassy building and several windows were broken.

The demonstrators brandished flags and banners reading 'Chinese go back to China' and shouted 'Terrorist China' when being whisked away by police cars and buses to the main police station.

The consular section of the embassy was closed to the public on Tuesday, while China called on the Netherlands to protect its citizens.

More than 150 people have been killed in Urumqi, the capital of China's remote north-west Xinjiang region, in unrest between members of the local Uighur population and Han Chinese which broke out on Sunday. -- AFP