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Protests in the village of Wukan in Guangdong Province stopped at the end of 2011 with concessions by the Chinese regime. Yet now villagers say many of their demands, that Guangdong authorities had agreed to, have not been met.
After two weeks of protests in China's Wukan village at the end of 2011, Chinese Communist Party secretary for Guangdong Province, Zhu Mingguo, verbally agreed to meet the demands of villagers. The protests ended shortly after. But so far, not all of the demands have been met.
The villagers who were detained have been released on bail, but were not released unconditionally, as the villagers had demanded.
The regime had originally agreed to return the body of Xue Jinbo—the village representative who died in police custody. Yet authorities now claim they are keeping the body for further investigation. A villager who was kept in the same detention center, Zhang Jiancheng, heard cries during the night Xue died. He suspects Xue was beaten to death.
[Zhang Jiancheng, Villager]:
"Shortly after we had been arrested and taken in, we were interrogated for 30 hours in a row, we kept strong and when the next day came and the detention center staff called us out (of our cells), and then we called for Xue Jinbo, four people carried him out. His body already had lost signs of life."
Villagers also say the land disputes that caused the protest in the first place have not been resolved. The Chinese regime is now also calling for the re-election of the Village Council that they had previously accepted.
Beijing-based rights lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan says he received a call from Wukan asking for lawyers to go to the village to provide legal assistance.
