Get Cynical

… I followed the paper trail of the reports that appeared in the Western press, naming him as Wang Wei Lin, the reports that he’d been executed. … So I talked to one of the journalists from Britain who had published that story naming him and saying he had been executed. … And by the end of the interview, I had a very clear sense that actually this man’s sources were not reliable. … I just concluded at the end of that investigation that we actually had no idea of … what his real name was, and we had even less idea of what had happened to him. He’d simply disappeared. … He may have been executed, but those reports were not based on information that I thought stood up to examination. So we were left with just a huge question mark over that man. …