South Korea police arrest 16 Fukushima protesters targeting Japan embassy
SEOUL, Aug 24 (Reuters) - South Korean police arrested 16 people on Thursday for entering a building housing the Japanese embassy in Seoul, carrying off and bundling some into a bus after banners were unfurled to protest Tokyo's release of waste water from its Fukushima plant.
The protest came the day Japan began releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, a polarising move that prompted fresh, fierce criticism from around the region.
"The sea is not Japan's trash bin," read one of the banners hung by the group, made up mostly of young people, upon reaching the eighth floor of the building, where the embassy is located. "Stop releasing contaminated water at once."
