Correspondent in Beijing
Ten vehicles and around twenty men in uniform surrounded this house in Changping, in the northern district of Beijing, say the neighbors. Another witness, threatened by the police, evokes only three agents. Regardless, Xu Zhangrun was swallowed by the opaque soul-crushing machine of Communist China on Monday and sent to an unknown destination, according to the usual practices of the security organs of the police regime, like so many others before. him.
"One thing is certain, Professor Xu was taken away by the police this morning", confides, on condition of anonymity, a friend of this academic, one of the last to still dare to criticize the absolute takeover of President Xi Jinping on the country. The police informed his wife that her husband was "arrested for having visited prostitutes", confides a close source. Biting irony, Xu pointed to this worn-out cynical ploy used by the security organs to shut up opponents, in
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