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Feng Congde

Feng Congde (March 5, 1966-), a native of Sichuan Province, was one of the student organizers of the 1989 democracy movement. Feng was admitted to Peking University in 1982 and after graduation was admitted to the Institute of Remote Sensing of Peking University in 1986 to pursue a postgraduate degree. During the 1989 democracy movement, he was a standing committee member of the Peking University Preparatory Committee, the chairman of the Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation, as well as the deputy commander of the Tiananmen Square Hunger Strike Group and of the Defend of Tiananmen Square Headquarters, which placed him on the Chinese government's 21 most wanted list. Feng and his wife Chai Ling, who was also a student organizer wanted by authorities, fled to France in 1990 after 10 months of hiding in China. Feng studied religious sciences at Sorbonne Paris, where he received his master's and doctoral degrees. In August 2005, he started to work at Human Rights in China in New York, and he resigned in 2008 to work as a web database designer in the Bay Area.

Feng founded the [Tiananmen Massacre Memorial website](https://www.64memo.org/), and was a co-founder of the web-based Tiananmen University of Democracy (seems no longer operating), and is currently a board member of the China Foundation for Education for Democracy. He is currently a director of the China Democratic Education Foundation. He has written and published *Conflict of Tiananmen: An Insider Account of June 4 of June Fourth and A Tiananmen Journal*.

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