a group of Chinese rights lawyers advocating for a detained Christians pastor and his aides in central China said they were assaulted yesterday by a crowd of unidentified people who also harassed a British television crew. Lawyer Liu Weiguo said someone threw a brick and hit him in the head. Several other attorneys also were hurt as the crowd of men and women roughed up the lawyers. Earlier, about 50 women surrounded a two-person Sky news television crew and grabbed at their camera, Sky correspondent Mark Stone said. The crew sheltered for hours at the county prosecutor's office until the crowd dispersed. The confrontation was over a land dispute that pits an influential local church leader against the county government.