Villagers gather to discuss the recent arrest of their democratically elected village chief Lin Zuluan, in the southern Chinese fishing village of Wukan June 20, 2016. REUTERS/James Pomfret
WUKAN, China (Reuters) - The chief of a village that was once seen as a symbol of grassroots democracy in Communist China said in a video that he'd accepted bribes, but disbelieving villagers retaliated on Tuesday with a mass march demanding his release as police looked on.
Lin Zuluan, the democratically elected and popular party chief of Wukan in the southern province of Guangdong, was arrested in a midnight raid on Saturday days after he made a public appeal for a mass march against illegal land seizures.
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