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BEIJING: Zhao Ziyang, who was purged as China's Communist Party leader following the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, is ill but in stable condition, the Government said on Tuesday, denying a report that he had died. ``Zhao Ziyang is an old man, more than 80 years old,'' the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Kong Quan, said at a regular media briefing. ``He fell ill a couple of days ago, but now his condition is stable. Some reported his death on the eighth of this month but this is totally not true.'' Mr. Kong's comment was an extremely rare official disclosure about Mr. Zhao (85), who has been under house arrest for more than 15 years after losing a power struggle in the chaotic aftermath of the military crackdown on the demonstrationsThe Government usually fails to respond to requests for information about Mr. Zhao, a sign of Communist Party unease about his potency as a political symbol and fears that his death could spark widespread discontent.
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