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Police Calls Rally for Self-Proclaimed Charity ‘Illegal’

Hundreds of investors gathered in Beijing on Monday to protest the government’s investigation into Shanxinhui–a self-proclaimed charity that has been shut down by authorities for operating a pyramid investment scheme in guise of helping the poor–and the arrest of its founder Zhang Tianming. Police have begun a clearance operation at the protest site and declared the rallies “illegal,” Elson Tong at Hong Kong Free Press reports: Demonstrators