Police evict remaining anti-China protesters from Taiwan parliament
- 10 years ago
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)
STORY: Police expelled hundreds of remaining anti-China protesters who had refused to leave Taiwan's legislative building on Friday (April 11), local media reported.
Over 200 protesters stayed on the compound of Taiwan's parliament overnight after most of the student-led occupation movement against a trade pact with mainland China ended on Thursday (April 10).
Protesters agreed to go home on Monday (April 7), after the legislature's speaker offered a concession stipulating that a bill allowing Taiwanese lawmakers closer oversight of agreements with China should be approved before they resumed talks on the trade pact.
The demonstrators broke into the parliament building in late March after the trade pact passed a crucial legislative hurdle and stood a single step away from full approval.
Hundreds of protesters took turns occupying the building, repelling police efforts to evict them.
It was the largest anti-Beijing pr
STORY: Police expelled hundreds of remaining anti-China protesters who had refused to leave Taiwan's legislative building on Friday (April 11), local media reported.
Over 200 protesters stayed on the compound of Taiwan's parliament overnight after most of the student-led occupation movement against a trade pact with mainland China ended on Thursday (April 10).
Protesters agreed to go home on Monday (April 7), after the legislature's speaker offered a concession stipulating that a bill allowing Taiwanese lawmakers closer oversight of agreements with China should be approved before they resumed talks on the trade pact.
The demonstrators broke into the parliament building in late March after the trade pact passed a crucial legislative hurdle and stood a single step away from full approval.
Hundreds of protesters took turns occupying the building, repelling police efforts to evict them.
It was the largest anti-Beijing pr