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Shanghai authorities were left floundering for an explanation after a man who had campaigned against the city government died an hour after the police detained him.
Shen Yong was one of the vast number of Shanghai residents displaced by the city's boom; his house was demolished six years ago to make way for a new development.
At the time, roughly 80,000 houses were being knocked down each year as the city transformed itself.
Ever since he had proved a thorn in the side of the authorities, petitioning for the return of his property and refusing to leave another house that he shared with his 80-year-old mother.
Early on Thursday morning, policemen and management officers from the property compound arrived at the house, handcuffed Mr Shen and led him away, according to a friend of his family. His mother was driven in a separate car.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ghai-after-unexplained-death-of-detainee.html