1月15日晚，湖南常德石门县尧业广场的数十名业主围堵了石门县公安局，要求当局释放当天早些时候抓走的数名维权业主。次日凌晨2点左右，在警察释放了抓走的维权业主之后，示威才结束。由于长期被拖欠工资，尧业广场格子铺的业主曾于1月12日到当地政府维权。
On the evening of January 15, dozens of property owners from Yao’ye Plaza in Shimen County, Changde, Hunan, surrounded the Shimen County Public Security Bureau, demanding that the authorities release several rights-defending owners who had been taken away earlier that day. The protest did not end until around 2:00 a.m. the following morning, after the detained owners were released. Due to long-term wage arrears, the owners of the small partitioned shops at Yao’ye Plaza had previously gone to the local government on January 12 to seek redress.