Beijing (CNN)A law professor at a prestigious Chinese university in Beijing has been suspended and put under investigation for writing a rare essay critical of President Xi Jinping.
Professor Xu Zhangrun of Tsinghua University was told last weekend he was being removed from all teaching positions until the investigation into him was complete, his colleague and friend Guo Yuhua told CNN Wednesday.
Guo, a sociology professor at the same university, said Xu’s work as a teacher, researcher and tutor had been suspended. She said the details of Xu’s suspension were still unclear but it had been in a major part due to an essay he published in July 2018.
