Breaking News – A human rights campaigner’s persecution continues

Posted by Daniel Teng on Monday, March 17th, 2008

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Chinese human rights campaigner Prof. Guo was arrested by the authorities in the early hours of the 16th of March. Guo was questioned for three hours and released later that day. Family believes that this was done due to the letter that Prof Guo wrote to the communist party leader Hu Jintao, calling for a change in government toward democracy.
When our reporters phone Guo’s wife at 2 pm, she said that more than 10 policemen were searching their home. All the materials they had about human rights campaigns and all of their computer equipment was taken.

After his release Guo said in an interview that the police came to question him at 3am and he asked them to come back during the daytime hours as his family was still in bed. He said that they then began to try to knock his door down but failed to achieve this. He then voluntarily opened the door at 5 o clock and went with them to be questioned.

Since being fired by the Nanjing Formal University for his humanitarian activities, he has become the deputy president of the New People’s Party composed of human rights campaigners.

The above news is brought to you by Qin Yue and hosted by Daniel Teng for Breaking News on SOH Radio Network.

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