Wei Jingsheng - probably the best known Chinese human rights and democracy activist and the leader of the opposition.

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Wei Jingsheng probably the best known Chinese human rights and democracy activist and the leader of the opposition. He was sentenced to jail twice for a total of more than 18 years due to his democracy activities, including a ground breaking and well publicized essay he wrote in 1978 "the Fifth Modernization". He is a winner of numerous human rights awards including the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award in 1996, the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the National Endowment for Democracy Award in 1997 and the Olof Palme Memorial Prize in 1994. He is sometimes called Nelson Mandela of China Since. 1997 he is living in United States.

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