Monday, 17 Feb 2020 07:59 PM MYTBEIJING, Feb 17 — Chinese authorities have arrested a prominent rights activist and legal scholar who had called on President Xi Jinping to step down over his handling of crises including the coronavirus outbreak, two fellow activists said today.
Xu was arrested on Saturday night by the Beijing police with assistance by police in Guangzhou, Hua said.Xu’s girlfriend, who was in Beijing, has not been reachable since Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Watch China researcher Yaqiu Wang. In recent weeks, Xu had written many articles criticising Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 70,000 people in China and killed 1,770.
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