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Saturday's more vocal protest will feature outspoken speakers, including Chinese dissident Harry Wu; Tiananmen Square protester Shen Tong; Dawa Tsering, a representative of Tibetan government-in-exile; 10 Buddhist monks from India; several Harvard students, and possibly actor and Tibetan activist Richard Gere, whose trip to Cambridge was not confirmed at press time...
...most important reason [for the protest] is to send a message back to our colleagues in prison in China or who are still carrying on the struggle," says Shen Tong, who participated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and is currently the president of the Democracy for China Fund...
Describing his friend, Wang Dan--one of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest--Shen Tong said, "He [Dan] was a sophomore at Tiananmen and has been in prison for seven years, he's suffering from prostate disease...
...Shen Tong, president of the Democracy for China Fund, Inc. and a former Tiananmen dissident, spoke against Clinton's foreign policy toward China during his address...
...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...