Yang Jianli
Chinese dissident, former political prisoner, Tiananmen Square massacre survivor and President of Initiatives for China
After Liu Xianobo’s Nobel Prize: The Situation of Human Rights in China with Dechen Pemba, Yang Jianli, Bahtiyar Omer, Ti-Ana Wang
- On: China
- Summit(s): 2011
- Speaker: Dechen Pemba, Yang Jianli, Bahtiyar Omer, Ti-Ana Wang
Speakers and Participants
Bahtiyar Omer
Uyghur rights activist
Dechen Pemba
Tibetan dissident and founder of website ‘High Peaks Pure Earth’
Ti-Ana Wang
Chinese dissident, whose father is imprisoned in China
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