Doctor who exposed Sars cover-up is under house arrest in China, family confirms
Exclusive: Dr Jiang Yangyong’s movements restricted after he wrote to authorities about 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
The Chinese military surgeon who exposed the government’s cover-up of the the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic in 2003 has been under de facto house arrest since last year, according to his friends and family.
The fate of 88-year-old Dr Jiang Yanyong, a retired general in the People’s Liberation Army, has been brought into the spotlight after a whistleblower doctor, Li Wenliang, who exposed the coronavirus epidemic, died last Friday at the age of 34.