2013-06-03
Vietnamese authorities branded anti-China protesters as “thieves and prostitutes” and brutally beat them at a weekend demonstration against the recent ramming of a Vietnamese trawler by Chinese navy vessels, an activist said Monday.
Some of the protesters at the rally in Hanoi Sunday were taken to a detention center in batches before they were freed, according to a blogger who was among those held.
Around 150 people protested near central Hanoi’s Hoan Kien Lake before security guards hauled off “more than 20” of them onto waiting busses, blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh—also known online as JB—told RFA’s Vietnamese Service.
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