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    Wei Jingsheng (Chinese: 魏京生; born 20 May 1950) is a Chinese human rights activist and dissident. He is best known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy...
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  • Tansuo (Explorations), a journal he founded in the late 1970s with Wei Jingsheng. Liu played a leading role in the Democracy Wall and was arrested (when...
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    Hongtian, Chinese diplomat Wei Wenbo (魏文伯), Chinese politician and revolutionary Wei Jingsheng (魏京生), Chinese dissident Wei Kuo-yen (魏國彥), Minister of...
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  • "The Fifth Modernization" is an essay by human rights activist Wei Jingsheng, originally begun as a signed wall poster placed on the Democracy Wall in...
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  • Modernization: Democracy and Others" written by writer and activist Wei Jingsheng, was posted on Democracy Wall. This long article strongly criticized...
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    for democracy brought instant fame to its author, Wei Jingsheng. On December 5, 1978, Wei Jingsheng, a 28-year-old electrician at the Beijing Zoo, put...
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    documentary also featured an interview with Chinese human rights activist Wei Jingsheng, who claimed in the documentary that he attempted to warn United States...
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  • Kaixi, Wang Chaohua and Li Lu), several supporters of the movement and Wei Jingsheng, a prominent dissident who led the Democracy Wall movement of 1978....
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  • Modernization manifesto by Wei Jingsheng, who was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for authoring the document. In it, Wei argued that political liberalization...
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  •  Vietnam 1995 Kailash Satyarthi  India Doan Viet Hoat  Vietnam 1994 Wei Jingsheng  China Ren Wanding 1993 Bambang Widjojanto  Indonesia 1992 Chakufwa...
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    Ngawang Sangdrol, Phuntsog Nyidron, Takna Jigme Zangpo, Wang Dan, Wei Jingsheng, Gao Zhan and Fang Lizhi.[citation needed] Until 2001, parole in Israel...
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  • Students for a Free Tibet, Palden Gyatso – Former Political Prisoner, Wei Jingsheng – Chinese Democracy Activist and Former Political Prisoner Amsterdam...
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  • registered by some local authorities. The Democracy Wall Movement dissident Wei Jingsheng was released and exiled, China signed the International Covenant on...
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  • develop hydroelectric power.: 204  On December 5, 1978, former red guard Wei Jingsheng posted "democracy" as the Fifth Modernization on the Democracy Wall...
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  • who was imprisoned for 15 years for being a member of the PKK 1996 Wei Jingsheng  China Activist in the Chinese democracy movement 1997 Salima Ghezali...
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  • ensured that authors like Václav Havel, Jacobo Timerman, Xu Wenli and Wei Jingsheng were all published around the world. After his experience in Moscow...
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  • attack by conservatives as early as 1979. Events such as the trial of Wei Jingsheng signalled writers that there were limits to the open discussion of the...
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    critics began to arise within the system, including the famous dissident Wei Jingsheng, who coined the term "fifth modernization" in reference to democracy...
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  • Arzu Abdullayeva and Anahit Bayandour 1993 Students for Sarajevo 1994 Wei Jingsheng 1995 Fatah Youth, Labour Young Leadership and Peace Now 1996 Casa Alianza...
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    Gulag system List of refugees Ivan Bunin Czesław Miłosz Đoàn Văn Toại Wei Jingsheng Yevgeny Zamyatin In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs...
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    Cultural Revolution began. The Chinese dissident and former Red Guard Wei Jingsheng published in March 1979 a letter under his name but written by another...
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    time and not providing prisoners with enough water.[citation needed] Wei Jingsheng had published under his name in March 1979 an essay denouncing the inhumane...
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  •  Meanwhile, overt calls for democracy were penned and posted by activists Wei Jingsheng of Explorations magazine and Xu Wenli of the April Fifth Forum. After...
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  • Osofsky, Hari M. (1998). "Understanding "Hostage-Diplomacy": e Release of Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan". Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal. 1 (1):...
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    criminal and stated that he does not deserve the prize. Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, in his response to news of the award, criticized Liu by calling him...
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  • big-character posters was protected by the Constitution. On December 5, Wei Jingsheng, an electrician at the Beijing Zoo, posted The Fifth Modernization a...
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    2008, he co-signed an open letter with Václav Havel, Desmond Tutu, and Wei Jingsheng calling upon the Chinese authorities to respect human rights both during...
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  • Awardees of the Second Annual "Wei Jingsheng Chinese Democracy Champion Prize" by the Wei Jingsheng Foundation". Wei Jingsheng Foundation. Wilson, Brian (2013-07-17)...
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    became concerned with Chinese politics following the imprisonment of Wei Jingsheng in 1979. In 1991 he completed his master's degree in sociology at Chinese...
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    Eventually, the most widely regarded poster writer for Xidan Wall, Wei Jingsheng, was sent to prison. The area is served by Xidan station, which is an...
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