Plant riot leads to guilty pleas
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February 1, 2013, Friday
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FOURTEEN people pleaded guilty to inciting a riot in eastern China last year when scores of police were hurt and the local Party chief was stripped half-naked in a mass protest that ultimately forced the scrapping of a wastewater treatment project.
The defendants were prosecuted on Wednesday on charges of encouraging mass violence against government buildings and intentionally damaging property in Qidong City in Jiangsu Province, Xinhua news agency reported. The sentences will be announced later.
Thousands of people stormed the Qidong government compound and turned at least one police car on its side at the protest on July 28.
Citing court documents, the Southern Metropolis Daily said the defendants forcibly broke through the police cordon to attack and to smash government buildings, injuring at least 90 police officers, damaging several cars and causing property losses of more than 230,000 yuan (US$37,000).
It also said the city's Party chief was stripped half-naked after he refused to wear a T-shirt boycotting the project while the mayor was forced to wear such a T-shirt.
The protesters were worried that wastewater from the Japanese company Oji Paper in upstream N
antong City would not be cleaned enough before being discharged into the sea.
Reacting to the prosecution of the protesters, some netizens questioned why government officials were not held responsible for their decision to permit the project without soliciting public input, while some said the defendants had gone too far.
The defendants were prosecuted on Wednesday on charges of encouraging mass violence against government buildings and intentionally damaging property in Qidong City in Jiangsu Province, Xinhua news agency reported. The sentences will be announced later.
Thousands of people stormed the Qidong government compound and turned at least one police car on its side at the protest on July 28.
Citing court documents, the Southern Metropolis Daily said the defendants forcibly broke through the police cordon to attack and to smash government buildings, injuring at least 90 police officers, damaging several cars and causing property losses of more than 230,000 yuan (US$37,000).
It also said the city's Party chief was stripped half-naked after he refused to wear a T-shirt boycotting the project while the mayor was forced to wear such a T-shirt.
The protesters were worried that wastewater from the Japanese company Oji Paper in upstream N
antong City would not be cleaned enough before being discharged into the sea.
Reacting to the prosecution of the protesters, some netizens questioned why government officials were not held responsible for their decision to permit the project without soliciting public input, while some said the defendants had gone too far.
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