In China. Wow. Now that takes guts.
More than 100 people are under investigation and several government officials have been detained or removed from office in central China after a dispute in early January in which a group of city officials beat a bystander to death.
The government investigation, which was reported by state-run news outlets here, was touched off by bloggers in China who were outraged that a 41-year-old man had been fatally beaten while trying to use his cellphone to photograph a dispute between villagers and city inspectors....
“It is definitely not the first time for something like this,” said a blogger on the popular Chinese Web site Sina.com. “What makes it news is that this time they got one man dead, the news got online, and the whole nation got informed. So they got serious.”
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