From Reuters, via the Washington Post [Full text]:
A U.S.-based rights group on Thursday condemned China’s closed-door conviction and jailing of 13 villagers for their roles in a protest that was quelled with riot police opening fire.
At least three people died and eight were wounded in Dongzhou, a village in the southern province of Guangdong, in December when police shot residents protesting against a lack of compensation for land lost to a wind power plant.
It was the most violent in a series of recent protests around the country being fueled by a growing gap between rich and poor, corruption and disputes over land rights.
Read the Human Rights Watch report.
