{"id":14108,"date":"2020-02-09T19:55:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T10:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/09\/sars-whistleblower-doctor-under-house-arrest-in-china-family-confirms-jiang-yangyong"},"modified":"2020-02-09T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T10:55:15","slug":"doctor-who-exposed-sars-cover-up-is-under-house-arrest-in-china-family-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14108","title":{"rendered":"Doctor who exposed Sars cover-up is under house arrest in China, family confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Dr Jiang Yangyong\u2019s movements restricted after he wrote to authorities about 1989 Tiananmen Square protests<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese military surgeon who exposed the government\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The fate of 88-year-old Dr Jiang Yanyong, a retired general in the People\u2019s Liberation Army, has been brought into the spotlight after a whistleblower doctor, Li Wenliang, who exposed the coronavirus epidemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/07\/coronavirus-chinese-rage-death-whistleblower-doctor-li-wenliang\">died last Friday at the age of 34<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/09\/sars-whistleblower-doctor-under-house-arrest-in-china-family-confirms-jiang-yangyong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Dr Jiang Yangyong\u2019s movements restricted after he wrote to authorities about 1989 Tiananmen Square protestsThe Chinese military surgeon who exposed the government\u2019s cover-up of the the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic in 200&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,1037,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-sars","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14116,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108\/revisions\/14116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}