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Chen Guangcheng and other Chinese dissidents Over the decades, several Chinese dissidents have criticized the Communist Party and have been detained by China or exiled in the United States.
Fang Lizhi
Fang Lizhi lived in forced exile in Tucson and taught quantum theory at the University of Arizona. He took refuge at the U.S. embassy following the Tiananmen disturbance and was put on the No. 1 enemies list of Deng Xiaoping. Fang died on April 6, 2012.
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Rebiya Kadeer
Rebiya Kadeer has been a leader in fighting for the rights of the Muslim Uyghur minority and has called for greater autonomy for Uyghurs in China. In 2000, the government convicted her of "endangering state security.” She lives in exile in the United States.
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Xu Wenli
Xu Wenli spent 16 years in a prison for his pro-democracy work in China. Following severe health problems and request for his release by western officials, the Chinese government released him on medical grounds in 2002. He moved to the United States and has been living in Rhode Island with his family.
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Wei Jingsheng
Wei Jingsheng, China's most famous political dissident, flew to the United States in 1997 after being released on medical parole from a 14-year jail term.
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Shen Tong
Shen Tong, an active leader during the pro-democracy movement in China, boarded a plane to the United States six days before the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and spent the next three years as a student at Brandeis University. When he went back to China in 1992, he was immediately arrested and imprisoned. But following international pressure he was released after two months and exiled.
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Wang Dan
Wang Dan was imprisoned for four years following the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Following his release in 1993, he continued to fight for democracy in China. In 1996, he was charged with plotting to overthrow the Chinese government and sentenced for 11 years in prison. But before he completed his sentence, he was released and sent to the United States for medical examination, and later exiled to live as a political activist.
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Wang Xizhe
One of the leading Chinese dissidents, Wang Xizhe was imprisoned for 12 years and released in 1993. Three years later, he fled to Hong Kong to escape further prosecution and later seek asylum in the United States.
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Li Lu
Li Lu was a principal student leader in the 1989 pro-democracy movement. Following the crackdown by the People's Liberation Army, Lu left China for the United States, where he enrolled at Columbia University. He works as an investment banker in New York.
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Chai Ling
Chai Ling was one of the first students to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in April 1989, and she stayed on through the night when soldiers opened fired on the students. She fled China in 1990 and came to Princeton University, where she studied political science. Ling is a successful businesswoman in Boston.
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Chen Guangcheng
In this image made from video, blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng is seen on a video posted to YouTube by overseas Chinese news site Boxun.com. "I am now free. But my worries have not ended yet," Chen said in the video that was recorded this week and sent by activists Friday to Boxun.com. Guangcheng escaped from house arrest and posted a dramatic YouTube video calling on Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to investigate his case and protect his family.
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Ai Weiwei
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei wears a shirt bearing his portrait as he walks into the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau. Weiwei has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese government's stance on democracy and human rights, resulting in his detention for 80 days in 2011.
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Liu Xiaobo
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is serving an 11-year jail term for inciting subversion. During his prison term, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for "his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China."
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Hu Jia
Outspoken Chinese AIDS activist Hu Jia was sentenced to 3 1
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Zeng Jinyan
Zeng Jinyan, center, the wife of civil rights activist Hu Jia, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail in Beijing. Jinyan had maintained a blog throughout the disappearance of her husband. A day before the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, she was detained and then later released.
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Liao Yiwu
Liao Yiwu, an outspoken writer and government critic, was repeatedly threatened with imprisonment to prevent him from publishing more of his controversial works overseas. In 2011, he was placed on a travel ban for "national security reasons" by the Chinese government. Yiwu is in Germany, after he managed to leave China by crossing the border into Vietnam.
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Shi Tao
Shi Tao is a freelance journalist for Internet publications and an editor for the Chinese business newspaper Dangdai Shang Bao. He was sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years for releasing a document of the Communist Party to an overseas Chinese democracy site. He is expected to be released in 2014.
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Wang Youcai
Chinese dissident Wang Youcai was one of the student leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Almost 10 years later, he was sentenced to prison for subversion, as he and his colleagues were involved in the China Democratic Party. Youcai was exiled under international pressure in 2004 and currently lives in the United States, frequently speaking out against the Chinese government's human rights record.
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