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Prominent Chinese dissident who was sentenced to thirteen years’ imprisonment following the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising. He was released in 1994 and was exiled to the United States. Last month he was denied a visa to enter China after he applied for one in order to attend a conference in Hong Kong commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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20 Years Later, Chinese Dissident Wang Juntao and US Journalist Philip Cunningham Look Back on Tiananmen Square Uprising
Twenty years ago, the Chinese military gunned down student protesters in Tiananmen Square. As twentieth anniversary events are held around the world, we speak with Wang Juntao, a prominent Chinese dissident who was sentenced to thirteen years imprisonment and now lives in exile in the United States, and Philip Cunningham, an American journalist who marched with the students and is author of a new...June 05, 2009 | Story
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
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