Sex Male
Birth date 1968-05-08
Birth place Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
Resident place Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
Education ML in law (1996) and PhD in philosophy (1999) at Nanjing University
Profession Freelance writer, internet dissident, and associate professor of literature at Nanjing Normal University before dismissed for his declaring the founding of New People’s Party as its acting chairman in 2007 (Honorary Member of ICPC, Uyghur PEN and Guatemalan PEN)
Date of arrest 2008-11-13 (detained), 2008-12-19 (arrested,1st); 2020-01-31 (detained, 2nd), 2020-02-14 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
Cause of arrest Posting online articles critical of Chinese government policies and founding the New People’s Party (1 st); online pubulishing 500+ comments on social issues, particularly critical to the Convid-19 events initially taking place in Wuhan (2nd)
Charge Subverting State power (1st); suspicion of inciting subcersion of state power (2nd)
Date of sentence 2009-10-16 (closed trail), 2009-12-25 (appeal, 1st); not yet (2nd)
Organ of sentence Suqian Intermediate People’s Court, Suqian City, High People’s Court of Jiangsu Province (appeal, 1st); not yet (2nd)
Sentence 10 years imprisonment and 3 years deprivation of political rights (1st); not yet (2nd)
Defender Lawyers LI Heping (disbarred), SI Weijiang and GUO Lianhui, CHENG Hai (1st); self (2nd)
Place of jail Pukou Prison, Postbox 3202-50-113, Nanjing 210031, Jiangsu Province (appeal, 1st); No. 2 Detention Center of Nanjing City (2nd)
Situation in jail OK (1st); unknown (2nd)
Date of release 2018-11-12
Family contact GU Xiao (mother), Tel: +86-25-86202380
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC, Uyghur PEN and Guatemalan PEN
Current Status Main Case
References
http://wordpress.com/tag/guo-quan/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Quan
http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2393/prmID/172
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99U1V7O0&show_article=1
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%AD%E6%B3%89 (Chinese)
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/guoquan-11132008094552.html (Chinese)
http://www.boxun.com/hero/minzhuxiansheng/ (Chinese)