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swissinfo.ch
April 12, 2018
Along with U.S. Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, Lois expressed her displeasure at China being awarded the 2008 Olympic Games. (Keystone). Lois Wheeler Snow, former Broadway actress and widow of US journalist Edgar Snow, has died aged 97 in Nyon near Geneva. She had lived in SwitzerlandÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 29, 2018
“No fugitive volunteers to come back,” says Huang Ciping, a prominent dissident and the director of the U.S.-based Wei Jingsheng Foundation, a Chinese pro-democracy and human rights nonprofit. In mainland China, the use of kidnapping and illegal detention has become such a standard part of theÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
February 6, 2018
He said his next step would be seek further instructions from the Zhaos. A contemporary of exiled dissident Wei Jingsheng, Qin was sentenced to eight years in prison for "counterrevolutionary propaganda and subversion" in the wake of China's Democracy Wall movement in 1981. He served a further twoÃâà...
VVdailypress.com
December 13, 2017
Chinese human rights activist Wei JingSheng, a friend and colleague of Chen's, understands his work personally. JingSheng was imprisoned for 18 years for publishing two articles in opposition of the Chinese government and he praised the artist's ability to empathize the needs of humanity through hisÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
October 24, 2017
Li is seen as a capable administrator and loyal Xi aide whose job on the standing committee would be shore up suppport for the president. "They say that Xi Jinping likes to hire his own people, old friends whom he knows well," U.S.-based rights activist Wei Jingsheng told RFA. "But if he makes the standingÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
July 25, 2017
Veteran democracy activist Wei Jingsheng and fellow Chinese dissidents and journalists demonstrate outside Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office, July 10, 2017. RFA. As China's vice minister of public security Meng Hongwei takes the presidency of international police organization Interpol, whichÃâà...
The Economist
July 13, 2017
Why upset the reform-minded Deng Xiaoping by harping on about people like Wei Jingsheng, then serving a 15-year term for his role in the Democracy Wall movement, which had seen protests spread across China and which Deng had crushed in 1979? The attitudes of Western leaders changed in 1989Ãâà...
New York Times
July 10, 2017
Wei Jingsheng, a prominent Chinese human rights activist who was imprisoned in 1994, left for the United States while he was on medical parole and was treated by a hospital in Detroit. In 1994, Wang Juntao, a prominent dissident who was imprisoned after the crackdown on protests in 1989, was allowedÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
June 2, 2017
Wei Jingsheng (L) testifies at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing, while a man wearing a shirt depicting the Tiananmen Square protests looks on, in Washington, DC, June 3, 2013. AFP. Many young people today don't even know what June 4, 1989 refers to. A lot of middle-aged and older peopleÃâà...
Huffington Post
March 20, 2017
A top highlight of the festival was the presence of Chinese dissident Wei JingSheng, who served as an Honorary Co-Sponsor for the event. He is a renowned human rights activist, a key player in the movement for democracy in China. In 1978, Wei Jingsheng wrote the essay, Fifth Modernization. He postedÃâà...
The Epoch Times
July 22, 2015
Several Chinese lawyers, scholars, and dissidents have recently announced their support for a campaign by Chinese citizens to bring former Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin to justice for crimes against humanity and genocide. The latest backer of the phenomenon is Wei Jingsheng, the veteranÃâà...
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