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From Boxun:

(据自由亚洲电台报导)北京消息浙江省宁海县的大约4000名纺织工人一个星期来连续举行示威活动要求增加工资和保障工作机会。

据美联社报导示威工人来自浙江省宁波市附近的宁海县纺织厂连日来工人们让工厂停产有些工人星期三在阻断了交通。

法新社说宁海县警方星期二出动了大约100名警察拘捕了三名示威工人。

From CLB:

According to reports, three workers were forcibly removed by police during a strike at a textile plant in Ninghai county, Zhejiang province.

The three workers, two men in their 40s and a woman, were apprehended during a demonstration by several hundred workers who were picketing the plant in the second week of their strike against low pay at the textile plant.

According to a report, one witness reported that "We'd been waiting for a week for the management to respond to our demands; instead, about 100 police officers arrived by car and grabbed three of the workers."

The witness also alleged that the police used violence to smash the participants cameras

The whereabouts of the three workers are unknown and the workers were continuing their protests in front of the local county government offices. It is believed that the authorities have already classified the protests as "illegal."

Many hundreds of labour activists and others have been detained by police during the escalating number of labour related protests that have been occurring throughout China in recent years. Scores of them remain in detention.