Accused of “inciting subversion of state power” for posting articles on the web and giving an interview to Radio Free Asia. He has been in prison for some time for trying to join his sick wife in the United States. His sister said that he has been on a hunger strike for months and his health is precarious.
Beijing () – The Guangzhou (Guangdong) prosecutor accused human rights lawyer Guo Feixiong of “inciting subversion of state power”. The dissident has been in prison for a long time; According to ChinaAid, the news of the opening of the process comes from his sister, Yang Maoping.
He is accused of having published articles on a website created by himself (World Constitutional Democracy Forum) and of giving an interview to Radio Free Asia.
In January 2021, police arrested Guo at Shanghai’s Pudong airport as he tried to board a plane bound for the United States. He wanted to reunite with his cancer-stricken wife. Zhang Qing passed away earlier this year and she never saw her husband again.
The activist (his real name is Yang Maodong) has been fighting for respect for human rights in China since the Tiananmen protests in 1989, when the regime massacred thousands of students demanding freedom and democracy.
First arrested in 2006, Guo spent 11 years in prison; in 2013 the authorities re-arrested him for calling on the government to ratify the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. In December 2015, he launched a prophecy against the Chinese Communist Party: “If you continue to condemn the democrats and those seeking justice, you will only make them stronger, accelerating the fall of the regime.”
The dissident was released from prison in August 2019, but was subjected to constant police control. When he was in jail he was subjected to torture.
Yang denounced that Guo has been on a hunger strike for months. He has lost weight and is being force-fed through a nasal tube.
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