Officials punished after pesticide protest
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FOURTEEN officials in east China’s Jiangsu Province have received punishments over a demolition project that saw seven people drink pesticide in Beijing this month to highlight their grievances.
The seven villagers from Sihong County are now out of danger.
However, they have been detained by Beijing police for causing a disturbance in their protest on July 16.
They had come to the capital to get attention from the media and petition the government, after officials in Qigan village pulled down their houses and forced them to sign relocation agreements with lower-than-market compensation.
Xu De, Party secretary of Sihong County, was given an internal warning, and Xu Yijun, deputy director of Sihong, received an administrative punishment for serious offenses, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
Twelve other officials, including those in the town and housing departments, also received punishments, the report said.
An investigation by the State Bureau for Letters and Calls found Sihong County violated rules in the Qigan relocation project.
The bureau said the Sihong government should not have listed land for sale when there were still buildings on it.
And after the land was sold, Sihong County rushed to pull down the houses of villagers without conducting surveys or consulting with them.
The investigation also found some villagers were placed in illegal detention by the local government after they complained to the Jiangsu Province Bureau for Letters and Calls last September.
The petitioners said Sihong government didn’t give notice for demolition and the compensation offered was too low.
Wang Jianbing, husband of one petitioner, told Beijing News that the compensation price offered to them was 1,800 yuan (US$288) per square meter, while the house price in the same area was over 4,000 yuan.
The community where Wang lived has 500 families.
Compensation prices ranged from 1,000 yuan to 2,000 yuan per square meter.
Wang said his house was demolished in December by the housing bureau, without any agreement or court notice.
Sihong County declined to comment yesterday, Beijing News reported.
According to previous reports, Sihong County relocated a total of 33,802 families in the first half of 2013.
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