Bullshit.

If he was alive and well he would have been trotted out to the public as propaganda by the CCP that they weren’t cruel, and instructed to regurgitate some safe speech that toed the Party line.

If he’s lucky he disappeared and kept his mouth shut to survive in silence.

Sources conflict as to his identity, and whether or not he was executed, imprisoned , or lived free.

Not that I expect tankies to think anything other than pro-CCP thought.