Word: wei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wei was sentenced to another 14 years of prison...
After the two prepared questions, Vogel unexpectedly asked the audience for a question. Philip J. Cunningham, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, immediately shouted out to be recognized. Vogel ignored Cunningham, a reporter for The Japan Times, as he continued shouting "What about Wei Jingsheng?" (please see related story...
Cunningham was the last reporter to interview Wei before he was arrested...
...time of Jiang's visit to Harvard, Wei was in prison serving his second 14-year sentence for speaking to foreign journalists and John Shattuck, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for human rights...
...November, shortly after Jiang returned home from his U.S. tour, Wei was released for what the Chinese government officially said were medical reasons. Currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University, he visited Harvard in May to give a speech at the ARCO Forum...