China has sentenced 16 people to up to a year-and-a-half in prison for involvement in an environmental protest last July when a crowd of thousands ransacked government offices, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
A court in Qidong city, 65 km (40 miles) north of Shanghai, charged the group of demonstrators with “gathering to assault state organs, damaging property and theft” during the July 28 demonstration against a pipeline for waste from a paper factory.
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John Ruwitch, Reuters via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/IsvDpHVnbuU/
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