Word: cunningham
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Shortly after, when Vogel announced that Jiang would answer a question from the audience, Philip J. Cunningham, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard on leave from Tokyo's Japan Times, seized the opportunity to shout out, "I have a question...
...Cunningham, who appeared in "Gate of Heavenly Peace," a PBS documentary on Tiananmen Square, and who was present during the student protests, was first ignored by Vogel, who instead pointed to Bogert...
...When Cunningham persisted, shouting "What about Wei Jingsheng?" Vogel repeatedly ordered him to sit down...
...longest-serving Chinese political prisoner, was last interviewed by Cunningham before he was arrested again for speaking with foreign reporters and the U.S. assistant secretary of state for human rights, John Shattuck, after Wei was released from prison in 1993, 14 years after his initial 1979 arrest...
...wanted to ask him to release Wei Jingsheng," Cunningham said in an interview after the speech. "Wei had been released, but the Chinese reneged on that. They've been playing hardball, but it's become a travesty of justice...