Lin Fei-Fan
Quick Facts
Biography
Lin Fei-fan (Chinese: 林飛帆; pinyin: Lín Fēifān; born 19 May 1988) is a Taiwanese activist who led the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014, against the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement. He joined the Democratic Progressive Party in 2019.
Biography
Lin was born on 19 May 1988 in Tainan, Taiwan. He graduated from the Department of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University, and is a postgraduate sophomore at the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2014.
Court proceedings against 21 protesters began in June 2016. First to be charged with various offenses included Chen Wei-ting, Huang Kuo-chang, and Lin Fei-fan. In a March 2017 Taipei District Court decision, Chen, Huang and Lin were acquitted of incitement charges.
Lin joined the Democratic Progressive Party in July 2019, and was appointed a deputy secretary-general.
Personal life
Lin married Lin Ya-Ping in June 2017.