Xu Wenli
Chinese dissident
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Born 1943 · age 83China
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Updated 2026-07-27
Xu Wenli is a Chinese political activist and one of the leaders of the China Democracy Party. Xu organized and participated in the Democracy Wall movement and acted as the chief editor for the journal April Fifth Forum. Xu was twice arrested by the Chinese government and sentenced to a total of 28 years in jail, of which he served 16. After his exile to the United States on 24 December 2002, Xu received an honorary doctorate degree from Brown University, and has since worked at the university's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs as a senior research fellow.
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