When the spread of SARS was being hushed up by Beijing's dictators a few years ago, Jiang Yanyong blew the whistle on them. A military doctor, Jiang put the public's safety ahead of his own, and his candor was initially frowned on by China's communist leaders. Eventually, they seem to have decided that Jiang wasn't enough of a threat to justify the public relations nightmare of imprisoning him.
Well, times have changed.
Apparently Jiang wrote a letter to the powers that be, asking them to stop treating the peaceful Tiananmen pro-democracy demonstration as a dangerous counter-revolutionary action and start treating it as a patriotic movement. Jiang, it turns out, had to treat the maimed demonstrators after they were brutalized by the "People's Liberation Army." His letter was leaked to the public.
For about the past month Jiang has been held in captivity by the state and is being "educated" (read brainwashed) by the authorities in an effort to make him recant his letter.
Mass protests are being staged around the world demanding that the Chinese government release Jiang and all other political prisoners. Oh, whoops, no. I just imagined that.
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