Word: weis
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...Wei Jingsheng, who spoke at the ARCO Forum on May 6, was not a participant in the 1989 demonstrations...
...Wei is part of the first generation ofdemocracy activists which came into prominence in1978. The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, whichWang helped lead as a Beijing University student,are widely considered to have been the secondwave...
...Democracy Wall," erected shortly afterDeng Xiaopeng came into power, quickly gainedinternational attention and Wei's poster "TheFifth Modernization: Democracy" led the charge...
...Beijing Zoo electrician went from obscuregovernment worker to heralded and jailed activistin less than a year. Wei was sentenced to 15 yearsin prison...
After his release in 1993--mere days before acommittee was to decide on Beijing's bid to hostthe 2000 Olympics--Wei again ran into trouble,this time for speaking with the U.S. AssistantSecretary of State for Human Rights. He wassentenced to another 14 years of prison...