From Times Online: after three premature obituaries, Zhang’s death was as mysterious as his final hours.
Xinhua gave no explanation for why it had waited since April 21 to make public Mr Zhang‘s death. It described him as a culprit in Mrs Jiang‘s counter-revolutionary clique and said he had been on medical parole since January 1998.
There was further confusion because several official Chinese websites had listed him variously as having died in 1991, 1994 and 1996. In January, the Tianfu Morning News reported that he had died of illness in 1994.
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