China has released two prominent reform proponents in a twist following its recent crackdown on activists.
Xu Zhiyong, a law scholar and organiser of one of the country's largest legal aid groups, who had been accused of tax evasion, and Zhuang Lu, his assistant, were released on bail yesterday.
Ilham Tohti, an economist who belongs to the Uighur ethnic group and who was detained shortly after the July 5 riots in Urumqi, capital of the western region of Xinjiang, also returned home.
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