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Dr. Alex Liu (Yong-chuan Liu) - a pro-democracy activist
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Mr. Liu was a participant of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing. From August of 1989 to August of 1990, he served as the founding president of the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in USA (IFCSS), which represented more than 40,000 Chinese students and scholars studying in the United States in 1989-1990. As IFCSS's founding president, he played a leading role in organizing large scale congressional lobbies and in organizing the 1989 Washington March for Democracy in China. In the summer of 1990, he founded the Global Chinese Student Union and became its president to coordinate pro-democracy activities of Chinese students and scholars world-wide till the summer of 1991. Mr. Liu appeared in numerous English and Chinese media including New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and USA Today. Due to his past pro-democracy activities, he has been banned by the Chinese authority from visiting home for the last 20 years. His name was placed on Chinese government's top black list.
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