SEOUL, Aug 24 ― South Korean police arrested today at least 14 people who entered a building housing the Japanese embassy in Seoul during a protest against Tokyo's...
SEOUL, Aug 24 ― South Korean police arrested today at least 14 people who entered a building housing the Japanese embassy in Seoul during a protest against Tokyo's release of water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, an organiser and a Reuters witness said.
The group, made up mostly of young people, reached the eighth floor, where the embassy in located, and hung banners condemning the release. A Reuters photographer on the scene saw police officers physically carry and drag protesters from the building and bundle them into a bus.
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