Journalist, demonstrators arrested in anti-G8 demonstration
Four people were arrested during a demonstration against the Group of Eight rich nations' summit in Japan including a cameraman for an international news agency.
By Agencies |
JAPAN: Four people were arrested during a demonstration against the Group of Eight rich nations' summit in Japan including a cameraman for an international news agency, police said.
Thousands of protesters hit the streets yesterday in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, the closest major city to the lakeside resort of Toyako where world leaders are to meet from Monday.
The protests were mostly peaceful, although police shattered the windows of a van that refused to stop as it went through traffic.
Authorities mobilised thousands of riot police who arrested four Japanese nationals three demonstrators and one television crew member for the Reuters news agency, police said.
"The television crew member kicked a police officer," said a local police spokesman. "The other three are demonstrators including a man who drove a van leading a group of protesters."
Reuters said it was sending a lawyer to assist the detained cameraman, Masahiro Koike.
"Reuters is investigating the situation and trying to obtain the release," said Shumpei Tachi, a spokesman for Reuters Japan.
Smaller protests were expected Sunday after the previous day's gathering, which brought together some 5,000 union activists, anti-war demonstrators, farmers and students.
But the rally was relatively peaceful compared with anti-G8 summit protests in recent years.
Thousands of protesters hit the streets yesterday in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, the closest major city to the lakeside resort of Toyako where world leaders are to meet from Monday.
The protests were mostly peaceful, although police shattered the windows of a van that refused to stop as it went through traffic.
Authorities mobilised thousands of riot police who arrested four Japanese nationals three demonstrators and one television crew member for the Reuters news agency, police said.
"The television crew member kicked a police officer," said a local police spokesman. "The other three are demonstrators including a man who drove a van leading a group of protesters."
Reuters said it was sending a lawyer to assist the detained cameraman, Masahiro Koike.
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"Reuters is investigating the situation and trying to obtain the release," said Shumpei Tachi, a spokesman for Reuters Japan.
Smaller protests were expected Sunday after the previous day's gathering, which brought together some 5,000 union activists, anti-war demonstrators, farmers and students.
But the rally was relatively peaceful compared with anti-G8 summit protests in recent years.
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