Students arrested in S. Korea for allegedly attempting to enter embassy in protest

Sixteen South Korean university students were arrested on Thursday for allegedly attempting to enter the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in protest of Japan’s dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the Pacific ocean.

The students allegedly attempted to break into the embassy after Japan started discharging the first batch of radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean, earlier in the day.

The police said that the students chanted slogans against the discharge and attempted to trespass on the entrance of the embassy on the eighth floor of a building in central Seoul.

The students were detained in four police stations on charges of trespassing.

About 40 other students held a press conference near the Japanese embassy against the wastewater discharge before being dispersed by the police.