Bao Tong, Chinese ex-official turned dissident, dead at 90

Beijing (AFP) Nov 10, 2022

Chinese dissident Bao Tong, a top Communist Party official imprisoned in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests who became a vocal critic of Beijing, has died at 90 years old, his son said on Twitter. Bao had spent much of the past three decades under home surveillance or in prison following the Chinese military's violent crackdown on the student movement, which called for democratic