An outspoken critic of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party was allowed to go home after being detained by Beijing police about a week ago, the New York Times reported.
Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Tsinghua University, was released on Sunday, the newspaper cited two people familiar with him as saying. He was taken away by police from his house on July 6 -- a move that a friend believed was linked to a book he published in New York last month that contained a collection of political essays criticizing the Communist Party’s rule under Xi.
