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  • "So now we are cautiously optimistic," Yang said.

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  • Guangdong's Communist Party Deputy-Secretary Zhu Mingguo told Wukan village protest leader Yang Semao on Wednesday that four villagers being held by police would be released over the next few days, Yang told the Associated Press.

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