316:. In August 1991, Wang announced that he was going on hunger strike to protest his poor conditions and the authoritiesâ refusal to allow his wife for visitation. On August 13, Chen Ziming who had also been given a thirteen-year sentence, decided to join Wang in the hunger strike. Wang went on hunger strikes on twenty-one occasions from the day of his arrest to his release in April 1994 â his third and longest hunger strike lasted 58 days, during which he was force fed twice a day to keep him alive.
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After the student hunger strike began on May 13, Wang and his colleagues gave up the position of detachment and became actively involved in the student movement. Wang and Chen organized daily meetings with intellectuals, students, and journalists in hopes of influencing their protesting strategies by
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published an article entitled: âTo achieve political stability in social progressâ â asking the government not to treat the studentsâ protests as a source of political turmoil, but to pay attention to political reforms, promoting anti-corruption measures, and establishing a stable situation via a
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took legal action challenging court rulings on valuables that were confiscated from him during the fall of 1989, and the second against
Qincheng Prison where Wang was held after his arrest in October 1989, for being responsible for him contracting hepatitis. In 1993, Hou wrote a letter: âFree My
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February 11, 1991 and sentenced to 13 years in prison. In March 1991, Wang requested medical treatment after blood tests confirmed that he had contracted Hepatitis B and was suffering from coronary heart disease. Despite thirty written requests for care, officials insisted he was not ill and
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labelled Wang Juntao as one of the masterminds of the 1989 movement and placed him on China's most wanted list. Wang sought out student leaders who had vacated the square during the military advance, and wanted to smuggle them out of
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a non-official newspaper, became an influential independent
Chinese newspaper that published intellectualsâ public opinion and analysed the expression of opinions and responses to the 1989 protest. Wang was editor-in-chief of the
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announced that
Beijing had until June 3 to show signs of openness in terms of human rights. If not, the American government would withdraw the trade privileges that allowed China to export their products to the American market.
356:. China announced that Wang was freed for medical reasons and would be treated in the United States, with no intentions of letting him return to China. Wang Juntao has been living in the U.S. since 1994, and resides in
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discussing and advising them about what to do. The institute became one of the âbehind the scenesâ facilitators of the student movement and were also consulted by reformers inside the government, such as
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on April 15, 1989 sparked the people's movement in which Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming became furtively involved. During the early stages of the movement, the
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