The media was banned from the cremation of Sun Zhigang - not by his family but by Guangdong government officials. At least six propaganda officials were at the Moonlight Hall on the first floor of the crematorium. They told reporters to wait downstairs while guests were signed in and checked for Sars. Ten minutes into the ceremony, two attendants rushed upstairs with a stretcher. A woman was heard wailing and men were yelling. Not long afterwards, a younger brother came down carrying Sun's photograph, three men carried Sun's mother while his father walked on his own, helped by two other men. As he came down, Sun Liusong lamented the loss of his older son. 'My son is gone. My son is gone,' he said. Later at the hotel where the government had put up the Sun family, a brother said he hoped Sun's assailants would be caught. 'We want to know who instigated it, whether it was the police,' the brother said.
