About Dr. Shizhong Chen
Dr. Shizhong Chen has been active in projects
concerning China for over 30 years. He has founded, co-founded, or
been spokesperson for a number of organizations concerning China,
and has spoken extensively on issues related to China.
Dr. Chen began his activism in 1989, when he helped
to organize supporting activities during the 1989 Beijing Student
Movement. Outraged by the June 4th Massacre,
Dr. Chen founded the Tiananmen Square Foundation, has served on the
Board of the Press Freedom Guardian, and was elected as the vice
president of The Independent Federation of Chinese Students and
Scholars in the U.S.
Upon learning the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in
China, Dr. Chen founded the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group in
2001, and has since submitted over 100,000 cases of human rights
abuses against Falun Gong practitioners to UN Special Rapporteurs.
He also founded and is President of the Conscience Foundation, a
non-profit organization to publicize and remind people that the
human conscience is the very essence of humanity.
Dr. Chen has spoken extensively on the issue of human
rights in China. Since 2001, he has frequented meetings of the U.N.
Human Rights Commission in Geneva (now the Human Rights Council),
spoken to the Council, to Special Rapporteurs, and at many forums to
forward the cause of human rights. He was a panelist at an annual
meeting of the California Bar Association, has spoken to Amnesty
International’s US West Region, and has made numerous appearances at
various forums and on radio and TV shows and interviews.
Among the books that Dr. Chen has authored or
co-authored are: Stories of Conscience, The Falun Gong Report, Falun
Gong, Humanity’s Last Stand, now in its third edition, and, most
recently, a comprehensive report on the extensive psychiatric
torture taking place in China.
In 2005, Dr. Chen conceived the idea of the Courageous
People, Spirited Land TV series and implemented the project.
The programs have since become very popular in China where viewers
have been disseminating them defying Chinese regime’s prohibition.
From 2010, Dr. Chen has given a presentation on The
Renaissance of Chinese Culture over one hundred Rotary Clubs,
Kiwanis Clubs, Lion Clubs, and various colleges.
From 2012, Dr. Chen has been working with a group of
activists in China to use China’s current laws to defend civil
rights.
Dr. Chen was born in China in 1962. At 15, he entered
the gifted program at China University of Science and Technology. He
came to the U.S. in 1982 to study and received his Ph.D. degree in
molecular biology at University of California, San Diego. He
currently owns and runs a molecular biology startup in San Diego.
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Here is a link to one of the
manuscripts mentioned in Dr. Chen's bio,
and may provide some background to a topic that will be covered in
our show:
http://www.falunhr.org/newsletter/TheLastStand-2009.pdf
Here are links
to one episode of the documentaries that The Conscience Foundation
have produced, in case you are interested:
http://www.falunhr.org/RJDL/English/TiananmenMission-1.mpg
http://www.falunhr.org/RJDL/English/TiananmenMission-2.mpg
http://www.falunhr.org/RJDL/English/TiananmenMission-3.mpg
http://www.falunhr.org/RJDL/English/TiananmenMission-4.mpg
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