Saturday, October 17, 2009

Chinese democracy activist gets 10 years

Guo should have won the Nobel Peace Prize, instead of President Obama.

in reference to:

"The founder of a Chinese group that challenged Communist rule with a call for multiparty democracy has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, a human rights group said Saturday.Former university professor and judge Guo Quan was sentenced for "subversion of state power" by a court in eastern Jiangsu Province on Friday, the New York-based group Human Rights in China said in a statement.Guo had been detained numerous times since 2007, when he founded the China New Democracy Party, which he claimed had 40 million members. He was arrested in Nanjing, the provincial capital, last November. His wife told The Associated Press at the time that Guo was taken after dropping his son off at school."
- Group: Chinese democracy activist gets 10 years - World AP - MiamiHerald.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

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