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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.