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:
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KrisAnne
Hall received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Blackburn
College and her Juris Doctor from the University of Florida, College
of Law. She served in the US Army as a military intelligence
cryptologic linguist and was a prosecutor for the State of Florida
for nearly a decade. KrisAnne also worked with a prominent national
First Amendment Law firm where she traveled the country defending
Americans whose Rights were violated by unlawful arrests and
prosecutions.