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Residents in a village in southern China where police have been deployed took to the streets on Sunday to protest the detention of the village’s democratically elected leader and historic seizures of land.
The protests in Wukan come nearly five years after an uprising there made the fishing village in Guangdong province, next to Hong Kong, an internationally known symbol of grass-roots defiance against China’s ruling Communist Party. Residents say police swooped in to surround government buildings and take away Wukan’s leader, Lin Zuluan, who had planned to hold a meeting with residents on Tuesday to discuss illegal land grabs. Prosecutors in the city of Lufeng, which administers Wukan, said he was being investigated on suspicion of taking bribes.