An activist group says police have beaten and detained protesters holding a rally in southwestern China to seek compensation for damaged property.
The group, Human Right in China, said Thursday that more than 500 police clashed Wednesday with hundreds of village protesters at a sit-in in a rural town in Guangdong province. It said the protest followed a typhoon which collapsed the local dam, damaging farmland, fish ponds and farm property. The group said villagers blamed government officials for illegally selling and removing trees around the dam, which may have caused it to collapse.
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