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After woman's suicide, boyfriend 'tried to incite protests,' police say Thirteen people have been arrested on charges of spreading rumors and disturbing public order in the protests that followed the death of a female migrant worker in Beijing earlier this month, police in the capital's Fengtai district have announced. "Their behavior led to serious social consequences," a statement by the police said on Wednesday. On May 3, 22-year-old Yuan Liya, a migrant worker from Lujiang in Anhui province, died after plunging from the seventh floor of Beijing Jingwen Mall, a wholesale clothing outlet in Fengtai district. Police later said the initial findings pointed to suicide and they had excluded the possibilities of poisoning, murder and sexual assault. Police notified her family members of the investigation's result, and releaseda short surveillance video to show that Yuan came into the mall alone on the evening of May 2. Her body was found at the exit of the mall's underground car park on May 3,according to police. "Due to discontent with the arrangements made by the mall, Yuan's boyfriend, surnamed Peng, and other suspects fabricated rumors to incite the victim's family members and friends to protest and argue for economic compensation," said Zi Xiangdong, media officer from Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. After the incident, Peng and some of Yuan's classmates and friends from Anhui province used the Internet to distribute rumors, saying "the young girl died mysteriously" and "she was killed by the guards in the mall after they raped her," according to Fengtai public security bureau. | 
