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Eleven people have been jailed for their roles in a violent protest that tore through a shipping town in Guangdong Province in June.
Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday (July 16) that five men had been sentenced on Thursday (July 14) to prison terms ranging from 18 months to six years.
Last Monday a court gave six men jail time ranging from nine months to three-and-a-half years.
The protests and rioting broke out in June in the port city of Xintang, following news that local police killed a street vendor and roughed-up his pregnant wife.
The incident set-off a blaze of fury among the large migrant worker population... taking aim at authorities. Cars were burned, shops smashed, and rocks hurled.
Migrant worker riots are not uncommon in China, where the wealth gap is huge and the legions of impoverished workers simmer with an anger that can boil over into the type of public destructive display that happened in Xintang.
