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Wang Dan (, 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 . Then a freshman at the Beijing University , he was arrested and sentenced twice, in 1989 and 1995 , for conspiring to overthrow the Communist Party Of China . He ultimately spent seven years in a Liaoning prison and was exiled in 1998 under international political pressure to the United States. He is currently the chairman of the Chinese Constitutional Reform Association . He was flown to New York and completed his master's in East Asian history in 2001 at Harvard University . He is now earning a Ph.D. Wang was interviewed and appeared in the Documentary '' The Beijing Crackdown '' about the Tiananmen Square protests. He also featured prominately in Shen Tong's book Almost A Revolution . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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