60 detained after incinerator protest in Hangzhou
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POLICE said yesterday that they had detained 60 people following a protest over the plan to build a huge waste incinerator in Hangzhou in eastern China.
Police are still hunting suspects who went on the rampage at the weekend in a protest against the construction of the incinerator, turning over and setting fire to police cars.
At least 10 protesters and 29 policemen were injured, more than 30 cars overturned, two police cars set on fire and four more smashed up. Later, the government said it would shelve plans to build the plant if they did not have the support of the public.
The city’s public security bureau said that 53 suspects involved in the violence, including 11 who had handed themselves in to police, were in criminal detention for disturbing public order.
Seven people are in administrative detention for spreading rumors on the Internet.
“For those who refuse to surrender, abscond or continue to carry out criminal activities, public security and judicial authorities will adopt forceful measures to bring them to justice and punish them according to the law,” the bureau said in a statement issued yesterday.
Among those in criminal detention, a 43-year-old protester surnamed Qiu from east China’s Zhejiang Province and another surnamed He, 24, from Sichuan Province in the southwest, confessed to throwing stones at police officers and their cars, the bureau said.
The seven netizens, six from Zhejiang and one from neighboring Jiangxi Province, received administration detention for five to 10 days for fabricating rumors and spreading false information online.
A 35-year-old woman surnamed Zhang claimed in her Weibo account that four people had died in the clash, while others spread rumors that three people were killed and that a 3-year-old child had been seized by police and died after falling from a bridge.
All seven admitted spreading false rumors, police said.
On Saturday, hundreds of protesters had rushed onto a section of an expressway, disrupting traffic.
On Sunday, the local government said construction would not start without public support and due legal process.
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