Suspended Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun is healthy and in high spirits, friends say. Photo: Sohu Suspended Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun is healthy and in high spirits, friends say. Photo: Sohu
Suspended Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun is healthy and in high spirits, friends say. Photo: Sohu
China /  Politics

exclusive | ‘We must carry on’: Chinese government critic and liberal icon Xu Zhangrun vows to keep saying ‘what needs to be said’

  • Friends say formerly low-profile law professor is healthy, calm and positive despite an investigation prompted by his criticism of official policy
  • Affairs of the state concern everyone, and intellectuals in particular must be able to speak their minds, academic quoted as saying

Topic |   Censorship in China
Mimi LauJun Mai
Mimi Lau and Jun Mai

Updated: 11:30pm, 28 Apr, 2019

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Suspended Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun is healthy and in high spirits, friends say. Photo: Sohu Suspended Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun is healthy and in high spirits, friends say. Photo: Sohu
Suspended Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun is healthy and in high spirits, friends say. Photo: Sohu
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