When British journalist Anthony Grey passed away on October 11, 2025, at the age of 87, the world lost not just a veteran reporter, but one of the last living witnesses to the madness of Mao’s China. Grey was imprisoned in Beijing from 1967 to 1969, during the Cultural Revolution, held hostage for more than two years. His experience became a global symbol of the dangers faced by journalists under totalitarian regimes. Grey’s death marks the fading of a generation that directl