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China Releases Professor who Criticized President Xi, Friends Say

Reuters

   BEIJING - A Beijing law professor who has been an outspoken critic of
   China's President Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party was
   released on Sunday after six days of detention, his friends said.

   Xu Zhangrun, a constitutional law professor at the prestigious Tsinghua
   University, returned home on Sunday morning but remained under
   surveillance and was not free to speak publicly about what happened,
   one of his friends, who declined to be identified, told Reuters.

   Calls to the media departments of the Beijing police and Tsinghua
   University seeking comment went unanswered on Sunday.

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