China has detained a well-known Chinese-American microblogger and angel investor as Beijing rolls out a new campaign to “purify” the country’s social media, writes Kathrin Hille.
Charles Xue and a 22-year-old woman surnamed Zhang were detained on Friday night for allegedly engaging in prostitution, Beijing police said on Sunday.
Sixty-year-old Mr Xue is one of China’s most popular microbloggers with more than 12m followers on his verified account on Sina Weibo, the country’s leading Twitter equivalent.
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