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BEIJING, Feb 11 (Reuters) A Chinese rights campaigner has been freed in a rare display of official tolerance two days after he was detained by police to prevent him from staging a hunger strike outside Beijing's leadership compound, fellow activists said on Saturday.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, seeking to portray himself as a man of the people, was quoted by the People's Daily, mouthpiece of the Communist Party, on Saturday as telling local farmers and workers "the gates of Zhongnanhai are open to the broad masses".

Yang Maodong, better known by his pen name Guo Feixiong, was released from police detention on Friday and escorted by plainclothes officers to his home in Guangzhou, capital of the southern province of Guangdong, fellow activists said.

He had planned to fast outside the Zhongnanhai -- China's tightly guarded political heart.

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