Nov 13, 2010: On the Chain Zhang

[xoxoxoBruce]

The "village officials", which means local representatives of the party, are all powerful in their anointed appointed area. They can do what they want in their jurisdiction, as long as it doesn't make waves on a bigger scale. If that were possible, his mother could have had him freed years ago.
He obviously doesn't have any money so his chances of compensation, or even justice, are somewhere between zero and none.