Wei Jingsheng
Wei Jingsheng
Wei Jingsheng is a Chinese human rights activist and dissident. He is best known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement. He is most prominent for having authored the essay "The Fifth Modernization", which was posted on the Democracy Wall in Beijing in 1978. As punishment from the government for writing his manifesto, Wei was arrested and convicted of "counter-revolutionary" activiti
"If you want to speak the truth, you will definitely pay a price. Its the same everywhere, but speaking out under communism comes with an especially heavy price. Many people have tried to speak out in China, and the price theyve paid is even greater than I -- they lost their lives."
