US urges China to free professor who criticized Xi – France 24

A woman in the original coronavirus epicenter of Wuhan walks in May 2020 past a picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who faced rare open domestic criticism over his virus response from a professor who has since been detained Hector RETAMAL AFP/File 2 Washington (AFP) 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…