Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1977-08-02
Birth place Xianyou County, Fujian Province
Resident place Haidian District, Beijing
Education MSc in Economics, Beijing University
Profession Founder, director and former president of Transition Institute (a NGO), commentator (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2014-10-09 (detained), 2015-01-03 (arrest)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Transition Institute has published some books and magazines for academic studies without government approval
Charge Suspicion of creating disturbances (detention), and of illegal business (arrest)
Date of sentence not yet
Organ of sentence no
Sentence no
Defender Lawyers XIA Lin (arrested later) and LI Jin
Place of jail No. 1 Detention Center of Beijing City
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2015-09-14 (on bail)
Family contact PAN Haixia (wife)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released on bail pending trail for one year
Reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Yushan
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/guo-yushan
https://www.nchrd.org/2015/07/submission-to-un-on-guo-yushan-and-he-zhengjun-june-20-2015/