"Vietnam Farmers Hold Policemen Amid Standoff Over Land Dispute", 17 April 2017

A group of farmers in...Hanoi... continued to detain at least 20 people—including riot police—in a situation sources described as “heated,” after a land dispute led to a rare incident of violence between residents and authorities... 

...Police clashed with residents of Dong Tam commune, in Hanoi’s My Duc district, who say the government is seizing 47 hectares (116 acres) of their farmland for the military-run Viettel Group—the country’s largest mobile phone operator—without compensating them.

Police arrested several farmers for allegedly causing social unrest, and other farmers responded by detaining at least 20 police officers and threatening to kill them if security personnel attack again...

Hanoi’s government has demanded that the farmers release the detainees and gradually increased a security presence around Mieu Mon village, where they are being held...

The farmers want authorities to release those who have been arrested and for the government to give up its plan to take their farmland without compensation...

...A land activist named Trinh Ba Phuong who had advised farmers in Dong Tam...was forcibly taken from his home... and questioned by police in connection with the land dispute.

While all land in Vietnam is...held by the state, land confiscations have become a flashpoint as residents accuse the government of pushing small landowners aside in favor of lucrative real estate projects, and of paying too little in compensation to those whose land is taken.