about Zhou
In September 2000, Mr. Zhou was the leading plaintiff in a lawsuit by Tiananmen Massacre victims against Li Peng for his crimes against humanity in 1989. This was the first of many lawsuits in the US to sue the officials of the Chinese Communist Party for their crimes. He was President of the Chinese Democracy Education Foundation from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Zhou co-founded Humanitarian China in 2007 with the vision to develop a network of loosely connected grassroot NGOs to promote human rights and the rule of law, and to provide humanitarian support to political prisoners in China. Humanitarian China channels humanitarian aid through independent writers, human rights lawyers, groups of activists from the 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement, and Christian Churches to hundreds of people in need, mostly prisoners of conscience who are neglected by the world. Cases of Humanitarian china include Fang Zheng’s family, Liu Xianbin’s family, and the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake.
Mr. Zhou is a prominent advocate for political prisoners and internet freedom, the Tiananmen Mothers, a partner of Liberty Sculpture Park, and collector and curator of artifacts and artworks of the Tiananmen protests. Through decades of work, he has provided support for thousands of prisoners of conscience in China, covering lawyers, journalists, persecuted christians, labor activists, and women’s rights activists, including Hong Kongers, Uyghurs and Tibetans.
