Le Dinh Kinh, land rights community leader, was shot and killed by the police during a raid during which three police officers died. Authorities arrested 29 villagers on murder or obstruction charges. Local news challenged the official claim that Mr. Le had been holding a hand grenade when the police shot him and claim he had been holding a cane. The police raid is due to a land dispute which began in 2015, when officials transferred 145 acres to the country’s largest telecommunications company, the government-owned Viettel Corp, but residents refused to give up their land. Mr. Le had previously been detained - and allegedly beaten by police - during clashes in 2017. The Hanoi Inspectorate rejected the farmer’s claims that 47 hectares (116 acres) of their farmland was seized for the military-run Viettel Group without adequate compensation.