Around forty student activists have gone missing after riot police stormed an apartment to stop them from staging a protest, other Chinese activists said on Friday.
The students had been staying in Huizhou, southern China, to support a widespread protest in solidarity with factory workers seeking to form a labor union, Reuters reported.
Video footage posted on Friday showed riot police, wearing helmets and carrying shields, burst into the apartment and scuffle with the students, who can be heard shouting.
Reuters said it couldn't independently verify the video, but other labor activists in China have confirmed it on Twitter.
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The episode, which took place around 5 a.m. local time on Friday, ended with the police arresting everybody in the flat, according to a statement tweeted on Friday by an activist group dedicated to those students.
It's not clear what has happened to the people in the video. Reuters said that neither local police nor five activists who had been staying at the apartment answered their calls. Other labor activists following the case also said they hadn't been able to contact the students.
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