Word: jingsheng
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Cunningham persisted, shouting "What about Wei Jingsheng?" Vogel repeatedly ordered him to sit down...
TIME: Americans care a lot about human rights. Can you explain why it is so difficult to release political dissidents like Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan? How serious a threat are they to your government...
...This time, Christopher did some posturing of his own. "History shows that nations with accountable governments and open societies make for better neighbors," he told 300 Chinese and American students and teachers at Fudan University. In the negotiations, Christopher called for the release of dissidents Wang Dan and Wei Jingsheng-->
...petitions, sponsored by the Boston and Harvard-Radcliffe chapters of Amnesty International, demanded the "immediate and unconditional release" of Jigme Sangpo, Zhou Guoqiang, Wei Jingsheng and Tong...
Organizers said the wall was designed to symbolize the Democracy Wall erected in Beijing and made popular in the late 1970s on which Jingsheng hung pro-reform posters. Jingsheng was imprisoned for these actions