Word: jingsheng
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Henry Ford Hospital, doesn't normally handle admissions, he made an exception when a call came in from Dr. Connie Mariano, who is Bill Clinton's personal physician. It wasn't the President who needed treatment but someone who would soon be getting just as much attention: Wei Jingsheng, China's most renowned dissident. The White House had been tipped off that Wei, who had spent most of the past 18 years in prison, would soon be released, and the Administration was helping make arrangements to whisk him away to the U.S. Since he was ailing and China was granting...
...Fifteen Seconds of Fame Released from a Chinese prison, Wei Jingsheng finds his time in the spotlight stolen by seven bundles of joy in Iowa...
...YORK: ?I?ve waited for decades for the right to exercise my freedom of speech,? said newly free Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng Friday, at his first press conference since arriving in the U.S. The U.S. media did not have quite the same patience, however. CNN for one cut away to the Iowa septuplets within minutes of Wei?s starting to speak. And this may illustrate Wei?s dilemma as a Chinese dissident in exile...
...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...
Human rights is the big-ticket item for Clinton, and the Administration has repeatedly said the relationship cannot reach its "full potential" as long as abuses persist. A high-profile gesture from Jiang would help: the release of well-known dissidents like Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan, some sign of religious freedom, a credible retreat on prison labor. But berating Beijing on human rights only injures its sense of sovereignty and challenges the regime's legitimacy. Jiang has given little indication that he is willing to do any of those things for the summit's sake, and China experts...