Nine Imprisoned for up to Ten Years Over Wukan Protests
The Guangdong village of Wukan won global fame and some democratic concessions in 2011 when...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 27, 2016
The Guangdong village of Wukan won global fame and some democratic concessions in 2011 when...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 15, 2016
The fishing village of Wukan, Guangdong remains under tight security following a violent clash...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 13, 2016
At Reuters, Venus Wu and James Pomfret report that riot police in Wukan, Guangdong fired rubber...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 9, 2016
At the South China Morning Post, Mimi Lau reports that Lin Zuluan, the former village chief of...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 22, 2016
Citizen journalist Lu Yuyu and his girlfriend Li Tingyu have been chronicling “mass...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 6, 2016
Five years after protests against the official seizure of public land led to local...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 23, 2016
Five years after launching protests against officials’ seizure of public land that led to...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 21, 2016
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 20, 2016
In September of 2011, villagers in Wukan, Guangdong, launched an anti-corruption protest after...
by Scott Greene | Oct 24, 2012
With some villagers in Wukan conceding that “the honeymoon is over” as their democratically elected leaders grapple with the challenge of resolving the grievances that sparked mass land grab protests late last year,...
by Scott Greene | Mar 5, 2012
After electing a new village chief and one deputy on Saturday, voters in Wukan went back to the polls on Sunday to vote in run-off contests to choose a second deputy and fill the four remaining seats on a newly-created village...
by Scott Greene | Mar 3, 2012
Villagers in Wukan cast their votes Saturday to fill seats on a new village committee, only a few months after violent protests over corrupt land grabs and the death of a detained villager drove away local officials and yielded...
by Scott Greene | Feb 1, 2012
Residents of Wukan, the village in Guangdong province which garnered global attention in connection with violent land grab demonstrations late last year, went to the polls Wednesday to select a committee to oversee the election...
by Scott Greene | Jan 16, 2012
Lin Zuluan (林祖銮), one of the leaders of land grab protests in Wukan late last year which boiled over after the death of a detained villager and ultimately led to the ousting of local authorities and concessions from provincial...