Emeute à 昌县 Yongchang (Gansu) après la mort d’une collégienne – 31 décembre 2015

· Schoolgirl’s Death Sparks Riots, Clashes in China’s Gansu

Radio Free Asia-31 décembre 2015

Authorities in the far western Chinese province of Gansu on Thursday moved to calm public anger after clashes surrounding the apparent suicide of a young girl who was accused of shoplifting by a well-connected business owner, local sources said.
The girl, a 13-year-old resident of Gansu’s Yongchang county, is believed to have jumped from the top of a tall building on Monday after being accused of shoplifting by staff at the Huadong Supermarket in Yongchang’s county town, local residents told RFA.
The incident drew a crowd of around 1,000 local people who protested outside the supermarket, overturning police cars and beating up Jinchang’s mayor Zhang Yinghua, according to social media posts quoted by the state-run Xinhua news agency. Read more…