UC Berkeley Offers Post to Dissident Wei
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BERKELEY — The University of California at Berkeley has offered a six-month visiting fellowship to freed Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, a university official said Monday.
Eric Stover, director of the university’s Human Rights Center, said Wei had also been invited to lecture at the school within the next few months.
Considered the father of China’s modern democracy movement, Wei was freed this month after having served as a prisoner in China for all but a few months since 1979.
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