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Chinese village 'ousts Communist Party'

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The Chinese protester who died in police custody over a dispute about landownership is due to be buried today, in a village in southern China that has become a place of revolt against the Communist Party. Martin Patience, the BBC's correspondent in Beijing and Steven Tsang, director of the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham, reflect on the stand-off.


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