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GUO Qizhen

Name in Chinese: 郭起真
Sentence: 4 years in prison plus 3 years deprivation of political rights

GUO QizhenCyber-dissident arrested on May 12, 2006 and charged with “inciting subversion of state power” for 34 articles he published on overseas websites criticising the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Mr Guo was sentenced to four years in prison and three years’ deprivation of political rights on October 17, 2006.  He is being held in Cangzhou Detention Center No. 2 in Heibei Province, and is reportedly nursing a broken leg and is in a fragile psychological state, possibly due to abuse.

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