Word: jingsheng
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Chinese authorities insisted that relations between Washington and Beijing were on the mend until Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck met with dissident Wei Jingsheng two weeks ago. Last week Christopher was unapologetic. "We cannot accept any restrictions on meetings between our diplomats and officials and Chinese citizens who are not accused of crimes," he said through a spokesman. "We cannot accept punishment and intimidation of those Chinese who choose to meet with...
...JINGSHENG...
...China's most famous political prisoners has been Wei Jingsheng, who was jailed in 1979 for advocating democracy and opposing Deng Xiaoping. Last week Beijing authorities suddenly saw fit to release him, six months before his sentence was to end -- and just before the International Olympic Committee was to decide on a host city for the 2000 Olympic Games. Beijing is an anxious contender. For good measure, the government also released Wu Xuecan, an imprisoned newspaper editor who had supported the 1989 pro-democracy movement, and Zhai Weimin, a student leader...
TURNING to the world stage, Harvard could invite Nelson Mandela. If the University is really daring, it could extend an invitation to Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese democrat who has been in jail since 1979. Now that Anatoly Sharansky and Mandela are free, Wei has the unfortunate distinction of being the political dissident who has been imprisoned for the longest time. Harvard could embarrass the Chinese dictators and give a nudge to one of the world's last nightmarish Communist regimes...
...risk of rousing large-scale protests is minimal. Except for a few notices posted outside the Beijing Intermediate People's Court, the prosecutions have so far proceeded with little official fanfare. The government may be calculating that concern for the detainees will eventually fade, as it did for Wei Jingsheng, 40, an activist during the Democracy Wall movement of 1978-79, who is marking his 12th year behind bars...