Wang Wanxing

Wang Wanxing
Chinese: 王万星
Born10 October 1949
Beijing
Known forDemocracy advocate

Wang Wanxing (Chinese: 王万星, born 10 October 1949[1]) is a prominent Chinese pro-democracy activist who was a prisoner of conscience for 13 years in Chinese detention centres and psychiatric institutions called Ankang.[2] Wang was the only person to have been discharged from such an institution to a Western country.[3] In 2005, he was released and now lives in exile in Germany.

  1. ^ What Happened to them?, International Society for Human Rights, retrieved 9 October 2007
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