2026-11-02
On November 2, a large number of villagers from Shiyuan Village, Zhengzhou, Henan, gathered at the entrance of the Zhongyuan District Committee office to protest and demand unpaid demolition transition fees. Police were present at the scene to maintain order.
2026-11
Recently at Hunan University, an elderly female rights defender wearing white clothes inscribed with her grievances demanded that school leaders honor the promises made during the forced demolition of her home.
2026-10-31
On October 31, in Sangmu Village, Taixing City, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, the Yaowang Subdistrict demolition team and the village committee forcibly demolished a prefab house and shipping container on the private land of the former Xiaotang Group 1 old residence without posting notices or providing official documents. Staff refused to show legal paperwork and engaged in a physical altercation with the parties involved, resulting in two injuries.
2026-10-29
On October 29, in Shangtou Village, Binhai Street, Haojiang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, a large group of villagers gathered at the entrance and service hall of the Shangtou Community Party-Mass Service Center to demand land expropriation compensation. Local netizens reported that village cadres were suspected of embezzling collective land compensation funds, leaving villagers without the payments they were due. Police arrived at the scene to maintain order.
2026-10-22
On October 22, a netizen posted that their house was washed away in a flood, and that their homestead had been reallocated in the post-disaster reconstruction plan and designated as a public parking lot, making it impossible to rebuild on the original site. The comment section sparked heated discussion.
2026-10-19
In 2014, the Taiyuan Beifu Community Residents' Committee, on the grounds of preventing residents from spending blindly, borrowed demolition compensation funds for urban village renovation, agreeing on a monthly return of 1.5% and repayment of principal by the end of August 2016; after maturity, it verbally lowered the return to 1%, and residents demanded repayment multiple times, yet 1.5 million yuan of principal remains unpaid to this day. Reported by Benliu News on October 19.
2026-10-16
A land dispute occurred in Dongguan Village, Mei County, Baoji, Shaanxi. Villagers say local authorities deployed police to assist a city investment company in occupying land to build a food market.
2026-10-16
During a rights-defense struggle over land requisition that has dragged on for more than ten years, the family involved went step by step from petitioning the authorities to being deprived of medical care, placed under communications surveillance, criminally detained, tortured, and violently assaulted, and a relative passed away. Netizens called on the authorities to stop blocking the family from seeking medical treatment and to investigate the abuse in detention.
2026-10-15
Chen Yanhua, a demolition-affected resident of Yong'an Xili in Beijing, posted that her house was torn down 14 years ago and that despite repeated requests for resettlement, there has still been no outcome.
2026-10-13
After the original work was published, some petitioners successively followed up by "dueting" it, showing the forced demolitions and rights-defense difficulties they had experienced, forming online support.
2026-10-11
The developer entered the site for construction without the villagers' consent to hand over the land and hired thugs who attacked the villagers with dry powder fire extinguishers and pepper water; after police arrived, they took no coercive measures against the thugs.
2026-10-09
A man surnamed Zhou in Mian County, Shaanxi, fought a lawsuit against the local government for 8 years up to the Supreme Court over the forced demolition of his house. The original ruling of 700 yuan per square meter was overturned by the court, and compensation was set at 100 yuan per square meter, based on the standard for pigsties.
2026-09-28
On September 28, a large number of villagers in Gushan Village, Yuelu District, Changsha, Hunan, gathered in front of the village Party-mass service center, raising their arms and protesting in unison. They accused the village committee of failing to distribute elderly pensions as required, illegally disposing of land, and unlawfully bundling votes on demolition and relocation together with social security resettlement. Police and local officials arrived at the scene to handle the situation.
2026-09-28
Relevant documents show that villagers in Gushan Village whose rights were infringed have entrusted a law firm to conduct legal confirmation regarding the legitimacy of the voting and the ownership of rights for three plots of land.
2026-09-24
Wang Xiuying, a villager group leader in Fu'an, Fujian, has been litigating since 2000 against the government's illegal issuance of certificates for 371 mu of village farmland to businessmen. Courts at the county, city, and provincial levels have failed to review the legality of the certificate issuance, focusing only on her standing as a plaintiff and whether the case constitutes a petitioning issue.
2026-09-22
A forcible demolition dispute occurred in Shuangliu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, where multiple residents formed a human wall in front of an excavator to stop the construction.
2026-09-21
On September 20, villagers in Shangliangkeng Village, Dapo Town, Gaozhou, Maoming, Guangdong, clashed with relevant personnel while trying to stop their crops from being forcibly cleared, resulting in one death and three injuries. On September 21, a large number of villagers went to the gate of the Dapo Town government to hang banners for rights defense, with a large number of law enforcement personnel maintaining order at the scene.
2026-09-21
On September 21, a large number of villagers from Cao Wang Town, Boxing County, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, gathered at the town government to protest the village secretary of Cao Er Village selling hundreds of mu of land without the villagers' knowledge. Villagers and security personnel clashed physically at the scene, and one person was carried onto an ambulance.
2026-09-13
On September 13, in Aobei Village, Shuikou Subdistrict, Huicheng District, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, multiple villagers gathered at a construction site to stop work, protesting the highway construction project that excavated and leveled Mashan Hill within the village.
2026-09-13
On September 13, multiple villagers in Guangshui, Suizhou, Hubei Province gathered to protest the local government's forced seizure of land and destruction of forestry without proper consultation.
2026-09-16
Villagers of Duoren Village, Pukou Street, Shengzhou City, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, gathered to demand an explanation from the local government after failing to receive demolition compensation for many years.
2026-09-13
On September 13, multiple villagers from Pengliao Village, Longtang Town, Xuwen County, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, gathered at the site to protest after the Longtang town government designated their farmland as forest land and planned to plant trees on it.
2026-09-09
Villagers of Rongbei Village, Guiping, Guangxi, gathered at the village committee to defend their rights due to land acquisition compensation issues, and had a heated argument with the village committee staff.
2026-09-01
Multiple villagers from Yongping Village, Tonghu Town, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, gathered by the riverbed and blocked the road to defend their rights, demanding that relevant departments resolve the compensation issue as land acquisition compensation payments have been long delayed.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, large numbers of villagers in Yuzhen Village, Longhai District, Zhangzhou, Fujian, whose contracted land was forcibly reclaimed and whose livelihoods were cut off as local authorities pushed forward a photovoltaic project, went to local government departments to stage a rally and petition for the defense of their rights.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, villagers of Maiba Village, Kangding City, Garze Prefecture, Sichuan Province reported that a newly stationed military camp, during wall construction, dug up and buried the villagers' ancestral tombs and dumped garbage, and that their representations to the relevant functional departments were met with buck-passing.
Location: Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan ·
Importance II ·
Verification: Reported ·
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2026-08-18
On August 18, 2026, it was reported online that in Shining Village, Tangpeng Town, Lianjiang City, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, personnel from the Juxinyuan Mining Company were suspected of violently seizing villagers' mountain and forest land and beating villagers and minors, triggering a fierce physical clash.
2026-08-13
On August 13, 2026, several villagers in Guhang Village, Luxin Town, Wuxuan County, Laibin, Guangxi, blocked a road in protest and to defend their rights after compensation payments for a quarry's mountain excavation were embezzled. Security and riot personnel arrived at the scene to handle the situation and took away several villagers.
2026-08-12
On the evening of August 12, 2026, multiple villagers in Lincuo Village, Waisha Subdistrict, Longhu District, Shantou, Guangdong gathered in a sit-in protest, objecting to the authorities changing agricultural household registration to resident household registration without public notice, and demanding protection of collective land rights.
2026-08-07
In a first-instance ruling, the Qindu District Court found that Zhang Heng's act of resisting a forced demolition that resulted in a death constituted self-defense, acquitted him, and rejected the civil compensation claims filed by the deceased's family.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, a lawyer disclosed that the Qindu District Court in Xianyang, Shaanxi, had issued a first-instance judgment in the case of Zhang Heng, finding that when his residence was illegally and forcibly demolished by a group of armed people in April 2023, his counterattack that resulted in one death constituted legitimate self-defense, and declaring him not guilty.
2026-06-30
From June 26 to 30, 2026, villagers of Lincuo Village, Waisha Street, Longhu District, Shantou, Guangdong gathered for several consecutive days to defend their rights, protesting that the village committee sold off collective land without the villagers' consent, and demanding the restoration of household registration status that had been altered to non-agricultural without authorization.
2026-06-29
On June 29, 2026, a forced demolition operation took place near Dingren International in Xuzhou District, Yibin City, Sichuan Province. Demolition personnel clashed physically with residents, and several rights-defense residents were injured, left lying on the ground and crying for help.
2026-06-18
On June 18, 2026, a Jiangsu netizen posted a video showing a group of people in camouflage uniforms entering a courtyard, forcibly cutting off electricity and internet, pinning two elderly people to the ground and beating them for 15 minutes, then carrying out a violent forced demolition after the beating.
2026-06-18
On June 18, 2026, a well-known "unmanned bookstore" that had operated for 20 years in Hexi University Town, Changsha, Hunan, was suddenly forcibly demolished. The owner published a post accusing officials and businessmen of conspiring through planning to hunt him down and of being driven out by hard power, while a large number of police and chengguan locked down the scene, drawing attention.
2026-06-17
On June 17, 2026, some villagers in Yushu City, Changchun, Jilin, had a dispute over land requisition and compensation rights, and collectively went to the local Letters and Calls Bureau with banners to petition and defend their rights, voicing their demands.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, villagers in a certain place in Guangxi gathered to protest a forced land requisition launched by the government without legally issued provincial-level land approval documents or a compensation list, and clashed physically with law-enforcement police at the scene.
2026-06-15
On June 15, the Xiabashi Town Government of Fu'an City issued a written reply to the issue raised by Wang Xiuying about the forcible seizure of village land, stating that the land had been lawfully requisitioned by the Fishing Port Command and the Fu'an Shipyard, among others.
2026-04-25
State Grid's Yantai–Weihai UHV line project entered Jiaoxi Town, Jiaozhou City, Shandong for construction without paying any compensation, and a female villager climbed a high-voltage tower in protest.
2026-04-25
Villagers of Houyang Village in Hui'an County, Quanzhou, Fujian formed a human wall, holding land certificates, and successfully blocked the forced land acquisition team from entering the village.
2026-04-21
After their houses were demolished in Liushutang Village, Suizhou, Hubei, villagers rummaged through the rubble for cash and clothing, and reported that the house demolition compensation had been embezzled by the village committee.
2023-04-01
On April 1, 2023, the home of Zhang Heng, a villager from Zicun Village in Xixian New Area, Shaanxi, was forcibly demolished by more than ten armed people; Zhang Heng and his son fought back, killing one demolition worker. The court later found that Zhang Heng had acted in legitimate self-defense and acquitted him.
2015-02-19
On February 19, 2015, the first day of the Lunar New Year, Jia Jinglong killed He Jianhua and then drove to turn himself in. On the way, his car was rammed to a stop by vehicles driven by He Jianhua's son and nephew, and he was restrained, suffering multiple injuries, including a comminuted fracture of the lower leg.
2013-05-07
On the afternoon of May 7, 2013, at 5 pm, 18 days before the wedding date, the demolition team of the Beigaoying Village Committee forcibly demolished Jia Jinglong's wedding home with an excavator. His father was restrained, relatives were beaten, Jia Jinglong was injured in the head, and the engagement was later broken off.
2013-05
After Jia Jinglong's marital home was forcibly demolished in May 2013, he repeatedly wrote letters of complaint to the Chang'an District Procuratorate and the district letters and visits bureau, and repeatedly sought talks with village head He Jianhua over compensation, all to no avail.
2003
The Changchun Municipal Government internally reported in 2003 that the incident of seizing Ms. Ma Yongtian's factory was illegal and wrong.