Chinese human rights activist Wei Jingsheng (born 1950) has spent most of his adult life either in prison or exile for his participation in protests against his government's policies. On November 16, 1997, Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng was released...

Wei Jingsheng Born May 20, 1950 Beijing, China Chinese prodemocracy and human-rights activist Wei Jingsheng was raised to believe in the communist system and to support China’s Communist Party leaders. (Communism is a theory of social organization...

Wei Jingsheng (Chinese: 魏京生; Pinyin：Wèi Jīngshēng; born May 20, 1950) is an activist in the Chinese democracy movement, most prominent for authoring the document, Fifth Modernization on the "Democracy Wall in Bejing in...

Andrei Sakharov, Vaclav Havel, and the many other dissidents who spoke truth to Soviet power left a legacy worth remembering. Those stubborn, unrealistic men and women demonstrated a counterintuitive truth about tyranny: that in the contest between prisoners of conscience and their tormentors, the...

ILL fortune continues to be the lot of Mr Wei jingsheng. China's best-known political prisoner has been moved to Beijing from a labour camp in remote Qinghai province in western China. Qinghai is China's version of the Siberian gulag. Yet Mr Wei's move...

Japan's Justice Ministry let Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng temporarily leave Tokyo's international airport for medical treatment Thursday, days after he was denied entry into Japan and wound up staying at the airport hotel.Wei had arrived at Narita International Airport near Tokyo from New York on...