Image caption Village came out in large numbers to protest after the death of their negotiator 
 
 Residents of a Chinese village locked in a stand-off over land seizures appear to be nearing a compromise with local authorities. Image caption Police have set up roadblocks around the village 
 
 Village representative Lin Zulian said that the authorities had agreed to release three other village leaders detained at the same time as Mr Xue, and to release Mr Xue's body. Protest leader Yang Semao says a senior provincial official told him and another village representative in a meeting Wednesday that four villagers being held by police would be released over the next few days and land from one development project would be returned to the villagers.
– They fought the law and, for now, it looks like they won. Villagers in southern China who rebelled against the Communist Party over a land grab and the death of a village negotiator in police custody have had some of their demands met, AP reports. Authorities have agreed to release four detained villagers from Wukan and return confiscated land to farmers. The Communist Party's deputy chief in Guangdong province has agreed to meet with protest leaders, and, in return, villagers have agreed to postpone a planned march to government offices. Police officers had surrounded the Guangdong village of 20,000 people during the two-week standoff, but roadblocks have now been lifted. Thousands of protests against land grabs occur every year in China, but the one in Wukan attracted an unusual amount of attention both in China and abroad, the BBC notes.