{"id":47951,"date":"2022-08-29T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/29\/china-tangshan-restaurant-attack-on-women-viral-video-people-prosecuted"},"modified":"2022-08-29T22:42:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:42:24","slug":"china-prosecutes-28-people-over-restaurant-attack-on-group-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47951","title":{"rendered":"China charges 28 people over restaurant attack on group of women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incident in Tangshan sparked outrage over gender-based violence when video went viral<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities said they had charged 28 people and were investigating 15 officials including police for corruption more than two months after a shocking incident in which a group of men assaulted four women<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/21\/chinese-police-investigated-over-handling-of-restaurant-attack\"> at a barbecue restaurant in Tangshan<\/a>, north-east China.<\/p>\n<p>The men carried out the assault after the women rejected their apparent sexual advances on 10 June. CCTV footage circulated online showed a man placing his hand on a woman\u2019s back as she shared a meal with two companions. After the woman pushed him away, the man struck her before others dragged her outside and dealt a barrage of blows as she lay on the ground. Another woman was knocked to the floor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/29\/china-tangshan-restaurant-attack-on-women-viral-video-people-prosecuted\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident in Tangshan sparked outrage over gender-based violence when video went viralChinese authorities said they had charged 28 people and were investigating 15 officials including police for corruption more than two months after a shocking incident &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,2410,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47963,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47951\/revisions\/47963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}