SARS whistleblower Jiang Yanyong passes away at 91.
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Jiang Yanyong, the Chinese military surgeon who exposed Beijing's cover-up of the SARS epidemic in 2003, has died at the age of 91. He was later detained and silenced after using his renown to seek justice for the government's Tiananmen Square crackdown. His defiance took on renewed historical significance during the coronavirus pandemic, with parallels drawn with Beijing's early cover-ups of infection numbers with COVID-19 and SARS.
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