Pen name Guo Feixiong
Sex Male
Birth date 1966-08-02
Birth place Gucheng County, Hubei Province
Resident place Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
Education B.Sc. in Philosophy at East China Normal University, 1988
Profession Freelance writer and independent publisher, adviser of Beijing Shengzhi Law Firm (Honorary member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2005-09-13 (detained), 2005-10-04 (arrested); 2006-09-14 (detained), 2006-09-30 (arrested) (2nd); 2013-08-08 (detained), 2013-09-11(arrested) (3rd )
Organ of arrest Fanyu Public Security Bureau (1st); Public Security Bureau of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province (2nd & 3rd )
Cause of arrest helping the Taishi villagers in the legal procedure and public campaign to dismiss the corrupted village chief, and continuously reporting the event to the press media as well as on Internet (1st); alleged for illegal publishing and selling 20000 copies of books (2nd) ; participation in solidarity with “Southern Weekend” and giving a speech in public (3rd )
Charge Suspicion of assembling a crowd to disturb social order (1st); illegal business (2nd) ; assembling a crowd to disrupt order in public places (3rd )
Date of sentence 2007-11-14 (2nd); 2014-11-28 (3rd, hearing), 2015-11-27 (verdict), 2016-01-16 (appeal)
Organ of sentence People’s Prosecutorate of Fanyu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province (1st);People’s Court of Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province (2nd); Tianhe District People’s Court (3nd), Intermediate People’s Court of Guangzhou City (appeal)
Sentence 5 years imprisonment and 40,000 CNY fine (2nd); 6 years imprisonment (3rd)
Defender Lawyer GAO Zhisheng (1st); Lawyer MO Shaoping (2nd); Lawyer SUI Muqing, LIN Qilei, and CHEN Guangwu (3rd )
Place of jail Shawan Detention Center of Fanyu Public Security Bureau (1st); Meizhou Prison, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province (2nd); No. 1 Detention Center of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province (3rd ), Yingde Prison, Yingde City, Guangdong Province (now)
Situation in jail Hunger strike for 2 months (1st); tortured many times and on hunger strike (2nd); rejected to meet lawyers many times (3rd ), suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding, but being denied proper medical treatment in prison.
Date of release 2005-12-27 (unprosecuted) (1st); 2011-09-13 (2nd); 2019-08-07 (3nd)
Family contact ZHANG Qing (wife), 4201 North Garfield Street #240, Midland Texas 79705, U.S.A., Tel: +1-432-599 1837
Donation to
Account Name: ZHANG Qing
Western National Bank
Routing # 116307370 Account # 91001676
Address: 800 W. Wadley Midland TX. 79705
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released due to expiry of sentence on 2019-08-07
References
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/release-08082019110354.html
http://chinachange.org/2014/07/07/guo-feixiong-and-sun-desheng-indictment/
http://chinachange.org/2014/07/07/guo-feixiong-willing-to-be-cannon-fodder-will-be-a-monument/
http://www.hrichina.org/en/citizens-square/i-want-be-man-my-word-summary-guo-feixiong-case-and-his-political-goals
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1297412/rights-group-says-china-detains-legal-activist
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20130819/c19detain/en-us/