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Name  GUO Qinghai
Pen name  Qing Song
Sex Male
Birth date  1965-03-11
Birth place  Botou City, Hebei Province
Resident place  Botou City, Hebei Province
Education  Graduated from a technical secondary school
Profession 

Former clerk at Botou Branch of Agricultural Bank of China, Botou City, Hebei Province

Date of arrest  2000-09-15 (detained) / 2000-09-28 (arrested)
Organ of arrest  Public Security Bureau of Cangzhou City, Liaoning Province
Cause of arrest 

Internet writing and publishing articles and editorials (more than 40) of criticising the authorities

Charge  Inciting subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2001-04-06
Organ of sentence Cangzhou Intermediate People's Court, Hebei Province
Sentence  4 years imprisonment and 3 years deprivation of political rights
Defender  Self (plea of not guilty)
Place of jail  No. 4 Prison of Shijiazhuang City, Heibei Province
Situation in jail  Hypokalemia, resulting in paralysis for some time and serious sciatica causing
Date of release  2004-09-14
Family contact 

SU Lifen (wife), Tel: 0086-317-8187871 Family Dormitory 2241 of Agricultural Bank of China, Xinxing South Street

Donation to
Case adopted by  PEN Canada, ICPC
Current Status 

Release on expiry of the sentence on 2004-09-14
(Case therefore closed) Joined ICPC

Reference

http://www.pencanada.ca/committ/HM/GuoQinghai.htm http://www.asiademo.org/gb/author/guoqinghai.htm (Chinese) http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=2939 (Chinese)