Beijing - The disgraced Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang has been barred from receiving visitors as punishment for his appeal for a review of 1989 pro-democracy protests, Chinese sources said yesterday.
A weekly golf game that was one of his few privileges, offering him an occasional escape from virtual house arrest, had also been cancelled, according to the sources.
They said a letter that Zhao wrote to the party leadership last month condemning the use of force to suppress the studentled demonstrations on June 4th, 1989, had angered the current party leader Jiang Zemin.