is pleased to invite you to a luncheon with special guest
Fengsuo Zhou
Executive Director of Human Rights China
Tiananmen student leader in 1989
Zhou Fengsuo
Join us for the chance to listen to Fengsuo Zhou, activist and speaker for Chinese human rights.
Zhou is widely recognized and respected in activist communities for his grounded leadership, humanitarian work, and inclusive vision for social change. As a physics student at Tsinghua University, Zhou organized the first and only free election of a student union in 1988.
This year, for the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, he helped organize commemorative events around the world, from Taipei to the UK parliament, to ensure that the sacrifice and message of freedom from 1989 is never forgotten.
During the Tiananmen protests in 1989, he built and led “Voice of the Student Movements” on Tiananmen Square. He was No. 5 on the most wanted list of student leaders after the Tiananmen Massacre, and was arrested and spent a year in prison. After leaving China in the mid-1990s, Zhou continued his pro-democracy and human rights activism for the China cause.
He was the lead plantiff in a civil lawsuit against Li Peng in 2000, became director and then president of Chinese Democracy Education Foundation between 2001 and 2010, and co-founded Humanitarian China in 2007, an organization providing humanitarian aids to hundreds of families of political prisoners and the Tiananmen Mothers, including rights lawyers, journalists, labor and women’s rights activists, political protesters, and persecuted house churches. He has continued leading and supporting the organization ever since.
In 2014, Zhou slipped back into Beijing to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, was arrested and sent back, and participated in the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong the same year. As Executive Director of Human Rights in China, a long-standing and well-known Chinese human rights organization, Zhou took on the full-time role of uplifting his community and his cause.
He has demonstrated inspiring strength in mobilizing and empowering young Chinese human rights advocates in diaspora to support rights advocates in China and in collaborating with and providing solidarity to the Uyghur and Tibetan communities.
He is a frequent speaker on university campuses, including the Oxford Union, and has testified before U.S. legislative bodies, including the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC).
Don't miss the opportunity to be part of this captivating talk as Fengsuo Zhou shares his lifelong journey with us, a story of courage and persistence.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Cercle de l'Union Interalliée
33, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
75008 Paris
Members: 70€
Non-Members: 95€
Register Now!
And to learn more about Fengsuo Zhou ahead of our event, we invite you to connect with him on LinkedIn here.
Dress Code:
Tenue de ville.
The Cercle de l’Union Interalliée requires men to wear jacket and tie.
Jeans and sports shoes are not permitted.
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is pleased to invite you to a luncheon with special guest
Fengsuo Zhou
Executive Director of Human Rights China
Tiananmen student leader in 1989
Zhou Fengsuo
Join us for the chance to listen to Fengsuo Zhou, activist and speaker for Chinese human rights.
This year, for the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, he helped organize commemorative events around the world, from Taipei to the UK parliament, to ensure that the sacrifice and message of freedom from 1989 is never forgotten.
Zhou is widely recognized and respected in activist communities for his grounded leadership, humanitarian work, and inclusive vision for social change. As a physics student at Tsinghua University, Zhou organized the first and only free election of a student union in 1988.
During the Tiananmen protests in 1989, he built and led “Voice of the Student Movements” on Tiananmen Square. He was No. 5 on the most wanted list of student leaders after the Tiananmen Massacre, and was arrested and spent a year in prison. After leaving China in the mid-1990s, Zhou continued his pro-democracy and human rights activism for the China cause.
He was the lead plantiff in a civil lawsuit against Li Peng in 2000, became director and then president of Chinese Democracy Education Foundation between 2001 and 2010, and co-founded Humanitarian China in 2007, an organization providing humanitarian aids to hundreds of families of political prisoners and the Tiananmen Mothers, including rights lawyers, journalists, labor and women’s rights activists, political protesters, and persecuted house churches. He has continued leading and supporting the organization ever since.
In 2014, Zhou slipped back into Beijing to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, was arrested and sent back, and participated in the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong the same year. As Executive Director of Human Rights in China, a long-standing and well-known Chinese human rights organization, Zhou took on the full-time role of uplifting his community and his cause.
He has demonstrated inspiring strength in mobilizing and empowering young Chinese human rights advocates in diaspora to support rights advocates in China and in collaborating with and providing solidarity to the Uyghur and Tibetan communities.
He is a frequent speaker on university campuses, including the Oxford Union, and has testified before U.S. legislative bodies, including the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC).
Don't miss the opportunity to be part of this captivating talk as Fengsuo Zhou shares his lifelong journey with us, a story of courage and persistence.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Cercle de l'Union Interalliée
33, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
75008 Paris
Members: 70€
Non-Members: 95€
Register Now!
And to learn more about Fengsuo Zhou ahead of our event, we invite you to:
visit him ....
Dress Code:
Tenue de ville.
The Cercle de l’Union Interalliée requires men to wear jacket and tie.
Jeans and sports shoes are not permitted.
Follow us @americanclubparis
The American Club of Paris
4, rue de Chevreuse
75006 Paris
contact@americanclubparis.org
www.americanclubparis.org
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