Wang Dan (dissident)
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Wang Dan (Chinese: 王丹; Pinyin: Wáng Dān) (born February 26, 1969), a leader of the Chinese democracy movement, was one of the most visible of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
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Wang Dan was born in 1969. He was a student at Beijing University when he participated in the 1989 protest. He was arrested and sentenced twice, in 1989 and 1996, for conspiring to overthrow the Communist Party of China.[1] He was sentenced to 11 years in jail.[1]
Officially he was released on bail for medical treatment due to faucitis, Gastroenteritis and headache. His release certificate was issued to his parent on Oct 2, 2007.[2]
He was flown to New York and completed his master's in East Asian history in 2001 at Harvard University, where he is currently earning a Ph.D. He is now a visiting scholar at UCLA.[citation needed] He is currently the chairman of the Chinese Constitutional Reform Association.
Wang was interviewed and appeared in the documentary The Beijing Crackdown and the movie Moving the Mountain, about the Tiananmen Square protests. He also featured prominately in Shen Tong's book Almost a Revolution.
He was banned from setting foot on mainland China with his passport expiring in 2003. He attempted to visit Hong Kong in 2004, but was rejected. At that time he was invited by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China to talk about politics ahead of the 15th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown.[1]
