In response to media reports of a female middle school student in Quyang County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, being surrounded and beaten for refusing to engage in conversation during a meal, the Quyang County Education and Sports Bureau stated that the public security authorities have intervened to handle the matter. Officials from the relevant departments in Baoding City informed the reporter that they have taken note of the incident and are urging the county to resolve it promptly.

"Ping'an Quyang" WeChat official account reported on the afternoon of the month that at around 18:00 on the date, a case of affray occurred in a restaurant in Quyang County. The suspects, Zhang某某 (male, 20 years old), Hu某某 (male, 20 years old), Li某某 (male, 20 years old), and others, after failing to obtain the contact information of Gao某 (female, 20 years old), Li某某 (female, 20 years old), Du某某 (female, 20 years old), Xia某某 (female, 20 years old), and others who were dining in the same restaurant, carried out an assault, resulting in injuries to Gao某, Li某某, and others. The injured have been hospitalized for observation, and their condition is stable.

Upon receiving the report, the public security organs swiftly initiated their work, identified the suspect, and apprehended the named criminal. Currently, the case is under legal investigation. The public security organs will strictly protect the legal rights and interests of minors and severely crack down on illegal and criminal activities targeting minors.

We all got beaten, and I was relatively less injured, but some other girls are hospitalized for treatment. According to a report by JMU News on the month, a female middle school student who was beaten said that she and three other female classmates were harassed by several men who were also dining at a local restaurant two nights ago. After they clearly refused, they were assaulted by the men.

Additionally, an employee at the incident restaurant confirmed to the media that several girls were indeed assaulted by multiple men on the previous two nights. On the afternoon of the 25th, a reporter called Quyang County Public Security Bureau to verify the incident. The staff member who answered the phone stated that the response from the Propaganda Department of the County Party Committee should be considered as the official stance.

Reporters learned from the Quyang County Education and Sports Bureau that the public security authorities have intervened and are handling the matter. Bureau leaders have already coordinated with the public security authorities, and specific details are currently not available. "Legal procedures will be followed as necessary, and those who should be detained will be detained," a relevant official from Baoding City told reporters, adding that the matter has been noted and the city is urging the county to resolve it promptly. Regarding whether anyone has been apprehended, the official said further verification is ongoing.

Hu Lei, a lawyer from Sichuan Dingchi Law Firm, explained that according to the procedures for public security organs handling public order and criminal cases, after the relevant victims have completed medical treatment, the public security organs will entrust a third-party institution to conduct an appraisal of the victim's injuries. "If the appraisal results show that the injuries constitute a level of minor injury or above, the perpetrator of the case may face the possibility of being investigated for criminal liability on the charge of intentional injury."

Hu Lei said that Article 1 of the "Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Provoking Trouble" states: "If an individual, due to occasional conflicts and disputes in daily life, fabricates reasons to create trouble and commits acts stipulated in Article 293 of the Criminal Law, it shall be deemed as 'provoking trouble,' except where the conflict was intentionally provoked by the victim or the victim bears the primary responsibility for escalating the conflict." He believes that if the perpetrator in the above incident falls under the category of "occasional conflicts and disputes in daily life," and at the same time, commits acts of randomly assaulting others in public places, causing serious disruption to public order, it may constitute an aggravated circumstance of the crime of provoking trouble, namely, "serious circumstances."

If the act of intentionally assaulting another person simultaneously meets the elements of both the crime of intentional injury and the crime of affray, it may face a sentence of three to seven years in prison. If prosecuted, the charge will be based on the more severe offense.