Guo Quan (; born 1968) is a Chinese

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activist. He founded the China New Democracy Party. He is a State Owned Enterprise cadre, secretary of the Nanjing Economic Restructuring Commission and Nanjing People's Court cadre. In 1996 he earned a master's degree from

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's Sociology Department. In 1999 he received a PhD in philosophy from Nanjing University. From 1999–2001 he was a post-doctorate researcher at Nanjing Normal University. In 2001 he was retained as a professor and PhD candidate advisor at Nanjing Normal University. He is also a researcher in the Nanjing Massacre Research Center.

Legal actions against Yahoo and Google

In early 2008, Guo Quan, announced plans to sue

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! (Chief Executive Jerry Yang) and

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in the United States for having blocked his name from search results in China.

Open letters to Hu Jintao

*On 14 November 2007, Professor Guo Quan published an

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to Chinese communist leaders

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and Wu Bangguo, calling for a "democratic government based on multi-party elections that serves the interests of the common folks."

Police harassments and arrests

Guo's very public open letters to President

demanding multi-party elections and the depoliticisation of the

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, was widely published in the internet blogosphere as well as the tradition media. Since then the Chinese cyber-police had begun to black out his blogs. *On 21 May 2008 Jonathan Watts of

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reported: Chinese police have detained Guo Quan, a political dissident who criticized the government's handling of the Sichuan earthquake. Guo was seized outside his home by seven or eight police officers on 17 May 2008. They searched his house and confiscated his computer On 6 Feb 2008 Guo Quan told Jane Macartney, of

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that the Chinese

! site had also blocked his name, and as a result was planning on suing Yahoo! as well. The

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wrote: On 13 Nov 2008 cnews reported that Guo Quan, was arrested Thursday in the city of Nanjing. According to his wife, the police's charge was "subversion of state power". Chinese police routinely uses the charge of "subversion of state power" to imprison dissidents for years. On 17 Oct 2009, Reuters reported that he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He has been described as a political prisoner.ChinaAid
Wife, Son of Well-Known Political Prisoner & Christian Guo Quan Arrive in US
, 24 January 2012.

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China New Democracy PartyChinese reporter targets Yahoo! from prison cell By Chris Williams, 11 June 2007 theregister.co.uk
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Legal actions against Yahoo and Google

Open letters to Hu Jintao

Police harassments and arrests

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