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Harvard is an institution famed for its dedication to free speech—but at the moment it seems to be taking pointers from recent visitor Wen Jiabao, the premier of China, and the repressive policies his government champions. For the crime of protesting during Wen’s address at Harvard last month, I am currently facing disciplinary action from the Ad Board...
...must speak for them.” I then left the auditorium, and the police informed me that, while I would not face legal consequences, a report would be submitted to the Ad Board.I stood up because I couldn’t give up a chance to talk to Wen face-to-face about his government’s harsh, brutally repressive treatment of Tibet since China invaded in 1949. In the past few years, China has begun hinting at interest in a “quiet dialogue,” even receiving a delegation representing the Dalai Lama, leader...
Howard interrupted Wen 10 minutes into his speech by unfurling a Tibetan flag she had smuggled past security in her pants and shouting “Tibet belongs to the Tibetan people...
...disrupted the speech but I didn’t stop it,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Wen and I both have the right to exchange our ideas freely, even though he may not accord that right to his own people...
...focused on Wen before the event, that I forgot about any effects my action could have on anyone other than him,” she said. “One guy even asked me out on a date...