Word: weis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Cunningham persisted, shouting "What about Wei Jingsheng?" Vogel repeatedly ordered him to sit down...
...Wei, the longest-serving Chinese political prisoner, was last interviewed by Cunningham before he was arrested again for speaking with foreign reporters and the U.S. assistant secretary of state for human rights, John Shattuck, after Wei was released from prison in 1993, 14 years after his initial 1979 arrest...
...Wei is currently serving another 14-year prison term...
...wanted to ask him to release Wei Jingsheng," Cunningham said in an interview after the speech. "Wei had been released, but the Chinese reneged on that. They've been playing hardball, but it's become a travesty of justice...
...sure professors have done "bad" things in the past, but I don't know for sure that no action was taken against them," Wei says. "I certainly see it as possible that the University might want to keep something like that quiet...