Peng Ming-min
Taiwanese democracy activist
Died when: 98 years 236 days (1183 months)Star Sign: Leo
Peng Ming-min (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Péng Míngmin;Pe?h-oe-ji: Phên Bêng-bín; 15 August 1923 – 8 April 2022) was a noted democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, and politician.
Arrested for sedition in 1964 for printing a manifesto advocating democracy in his native Taiwan, he escaped to Sweden, before taking a post as a university teacher in the United States.
After 22 years in exile he returned to become the Democratic Progressive Party's first presidential candidate in Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996.
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