{"id":45116,"date":"2015-01-30T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=45116 "},"modified":"2015-01-30T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T20:01:00","slug":"45116-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=45116","title":{"rendered":"Tibetans Arrested After Land Grab Protest in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>January 29, 2015 1:37 PM<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>A group of at least 10 Tibetan nomads has been taken away by police in China&#8217;s Sichuan province after protesting what the group says was an illegal land grab.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The protest took place Wednesday in Chengdu outside the Jin Jiang hotel, where local officials were attending a provincial Communist Party meeting.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The Tibetans are seen in pictures holding banners that call on authorities to resolve their complaint and return land they say was taken from them. &nbsp;Within minutes of starting their protest, about 50 police officers arrived and took them away.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>A source close to the protesters told VOA&#8217;s Tibetan service the dispute goes back several years.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;Five years ago the government said the nomadic land and the houses where they lived are going to be used for real estate development,&#8221; said the source, who did not want to be named. &nbsp;&#8220;Therefore, the nomadic houses were demolished. &nbsp;Throughout the years and months, appeals to the local government never had any response.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>He added the detained Tibetans are from Thangkor Township (Chinese:Tangke Xiang), located in a Tibetan region of Sichuan, and that their current situation is unknown. &nbsp;Chinese officials have not commented on the incident.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Illegal land grabs by local officials and connected businesses frequently trigger local protests in China. &nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Sichuan, which has a sizable Tibetan minority, is the province where the largest number of Tibetans have protested with self-immolations since 2009.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/ye-xioazheng-arrested-01292015125621.html\">Continue reading the original article<\/a>.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;The Tibetans are seen in pictures holding banners that call on authorities to resolve their complaint and return land they say was taken from them. &amp;nbsp;Within minutes of starting their protest, about 50 police officers arrived and took them away.&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}