CHINA: 14 charged over riot in Qidong, Jiangsu province, plead guilty

Fourteen people pleaded guilty to encouraging a riot in Jiangsu province last year in which a Communist Party chief was stripped half-naked in a mass protest that ultimately forced the local government to scrap a waste-water treatment project.

Xinhua said the defendants were prosecuted on Wednesday on charges of encouraging mass violence against government buildings and intentionally damaging property in the eastern city of Qidong . Scores of police were hurt in the melee.

The sentences would be announced later, Xinhua said.