Riot police have locked down a Chinese village and arrested its chief after he called for renewed protests against corruption and land grabs in a town viewed as an incubator for grass roots democracy.
Wukan captured attention worldwide in 2011 when villagers evicted local Communist officials and police over what they alleged were years of collusion between property developers and local officials
The months-long stand-off ended when the Guangdong provincial government agreed to let villagers elect their own party administrators, a resolution that some predicted would embolden other towns and villages to demand similar rights. But the underlying land disputes have not been resolved, despite the punishment of two former village officials implicated in illegal land sales that fuelled the original protests.