Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, was taken from his home in the capital on 6 July.
A Chinese academic who penned an essay blaming the coronavirus pandemic on President Xi Jinping's authoritarianism and censorship has been released after nearly a week in detention, his friends have told AFP.
He returned home on Sunday and was well, two friends confirmed to AFP on Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity. A friend of his told AFP on 6 July that a man claiming to be police called the professor's wife to say he had been arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitutes, which the friend dismissed as"ridiculous and shameless".
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