Xiong Yan (熊焱) is a Chinese dissident who served as a chaplain in U.S. Army in Iraq. Currently, he serves as a U.S. Army chaplain at the Warrant Officer Career College at Fort Rucker, Alabama. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1985 and formally withdrew his membership from the CCP on June 4, 1989 after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. He was a student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He was detained for 19 months in a Laogai(勞動改造), for his pro-democratic activities and fled China in 1992 to United States, where he studied theology in Boston. He went on to join the US Army. In 2005 he announced again in The Epoch Times that he withdrew his membership of the Chinese Communist Party. He is still active in overseas China democracy movement.