The doctor who exposed China's cover-up of the SARS epidemic in 2003 has died aged 91, his family confirmed on Wednesday.
BEIJING — The doctor who exposed China's cover-up of the SARS epidemic in 2003 has died aged 91, his family confirmed on Wednesday.
His funeral was held on Wednesday morning, said Jiang's daughter-in-law Cui Hong, who told AFP she was "not allowed" to attend the ceremony, and declined to provide further details on his death. He reportedly died on Saturday. Jiang later spent eight months under house arrest after publicly denouncing the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, during which the military crushed weeks of student-led democracy protests, killing hundreds and possibly thousands.
The whistleblower faced a host of restrictions towards the end of his life and was barred from traveling to the United States in 2007 to accept a human rights award.
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