Chinese authorities have charged 28 people and detained eight police officials following a brutal assault on a group of women earlier this summer that shocked the country and provoked widespread anger.
The attack at a barbecue restaurant in the early hours of June 10 in the northeastern city of Tangshan saw a women and her three friends repeatedly kicked and punched by a group of men after she rejected one of their advances.
Authorities also tried to dispel long-running rumors swirling around the case, with the Hebei procuratorate saying claims that some of the women were sexually assaulted or hit by vehicles in an alley adjacent to the restaurant were"false information."After the attack, the police said in a terse statement that two of the women had been sent to hospital and were in stable condition, while the other two sustained minor injuries.
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