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Thursday, 31 January 2013

China Says 14 Guilty of Pollution Protest Violence

Fourteen people pleaded guilty to encouraging a riot in eastern China last year in which the local Communist Party chief was stripped half-naked in a mass protest that ultimately forced the local government to scrap a wastewater treatment project.


The official Xinhua News Agency said the defendants were prosecuted Wednesday on charges of encouraging mass violence against government buildings and intentionally damaging property in the city of Qidong in Jiangsu province north of Shanghai. Scores of police were hurt in the melee.


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Didi Tang, Associated Press via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/e22D0veVKJ8/

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