China Detains One of Xi Jinping’s Most Prominent Critics

HONG KONG—Chinese authorities have detained a authorized scholar generally known as one of the few outstanding voices in China nonetheless keen to brazenly criticize President Xi Jinping’s management, the professor’s mates say.

Xu Zhangrun, a legislation professor at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University, was taken by police from his suburban residence within the Chinese capital on Monday morning, in accordance with his mates, who cited a housekeeper and a neighbor who witnessed the method.

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