"Hundreds of Villagers Hold Officials Hostage Over Vietnam Power Plant Plans", 20 April 2018

Hundreds of villagers in central Vietnam's Binh Dinh province held five local officials hostage for a day before releasing them...to demand that authorities free more than a dozen people detained for holding an environmental protest....

Residents of My Tho and My An communes...held a protest against...plans by Vietnam Trading Engineering Construction's (Vietracimex) to construct a wind power plant.

The villagers blocked a local highway and threw sand at police over the plans, which they said are a cover for a titanium ore exploitation operation that they believe will destroy local forestland through pollution.

Authorities broke up the protest and detained 14 people for "disturbing public order."

...[S]ome 500 people surrounded the local government office in My Tho commune and took five officials hostage....

The mob forced authorities to release the 14 people arrested....