69. GUO Qizhen
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1958-05-10
Birth place Cangzhou City, Hebei Province
Resident place Cangzhou City, Hebei Province
Education College
Profession Internet writer (Honorary member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2006-05-12 (detained), 2006-06-06 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Cangzhou City, Hebei Province
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publish 34 dissident articles to attack at the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and government
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2006-10-17, 2007-03-23 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Cangzhou City, High People’s Court of Hebei Province (2nd)
Sentence 4 Years imprisonment and 3 Years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyer LI Jianqiang and sister GUO Huiping
Place of jail No 4 Prison of Hebei Province, Shi Jiazhuang City
Situation in jail unhealthy and tortured; recurrence of a leg injury, high blood pressure, arm numbness
Date of release 2010-05-11
Family contact ZHAO Changqin (wife), Tel:0086-15076704960,
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2010-05-11
(Therefore the case closed) keeping contact
References http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17909
http://www.pen.org.au/index.php?menu=Profiles&subMenu=guo
http://www.chinesepen.org/yzzj/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=4567 (in Chinese)
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/06/08/guo/ (in Chinese)
http://asiademo.org/gb/author/guoqizhen.htm (in Chinese)
http://www.zhongguohun.com/viewpoint/story/039.html (in Chinese)