- The most senior Chinese Communist Party official who was jailed over the pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 has died at 90.
- Bao Tong was expelled by the Communist Party and imprisoned for seven years for his support of the movement.
- Chinese activists around the world have mourned his death, but in China, Bao’s life and the Tiananmen protests have all but disappeared from the heavily censored public record.