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...panel also included Juntao Wang, one of the student organizers of the 1989 democracy movement in Beijing, who said he hopes that human rights issues do not get in the way of U.S.-Sino relations...
...fawning before a powerful head of state. Unfortunately, at Jiang's request, he will have seen the questions beforehand--a far cry from the unscripted question period agreed to by most political speakers at Harvard. Still, as former Chinese political prisoner and Kennedy School of Government graduate Wang Juntao told The Boston Globe last week, "The protests will test Jiang, but the real test will be the questions from the audience at Harvard...
...hopes of furthering this proposal, I am suggesting that you extend invitations to the following persons: Wang Juntao, Tong Yi and Liu Gang, who have all spent years in Chinese prisons for merely expressing their political opinions in China...
...preceding four weeks, Chinese courts had been churning through 29 similar trials with remarkable, if cruel, efficiency. Also sentenced to 13 years was Chen's colleague Wang Juntao, 32, an editor at the Beijing Social and Economic Research Institute, a private think tank headed by Chen. But those among the defendants who showed signs of repentance were treated "leniently" and given lighter sentences. Student leader Wang Dan, the most wanted student after the Tiananmen massacre, drew only four years because he recanted and "exposed others" -- among them Chen Ziming, as prosecutors claimed at last week's trial...
Four of those recently sentenced were students who had been on the government's most-wanted list. But the real test of Beijing's commitment to leniency will come with the still unscheduled trials of the alleged masterminds of the Tiananmen demonstrations, including Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao...