The
United States called Tuesday on
China to free an outspoken professor who was detained after criticizing President
Xi Jinping over the
Coronavirus pandemic.
Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Tsinghua University, one of China's top institutions, was taken from his home in suburban
Beijing on Monday along with more than 20 other people, his
Friends said.
"We are deeply concerned by the PRC's detention of Professor Xu Zhangrun for criticizing Chinese leaders amid tightening ideological controls on university campuses in China," State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus said, referring to the People's Republic of China.