郭泉（1968年5月8日－），南京师范大学文学院副教授、硕士生导师，中国大陆社会、政治活动人士，中国新民党创始人及代理主席。曾在网上公开致函中共中央总书记胡锦涛、全国人大常委会委员长吴邦国及国务院总理温家宝等领导人，又发表文章，反对中国共产党的一党专政。
1990年大学英语专业毕业。此后曾担任国有企业干部、南京市政府经济体制改革委员会秘书和南京市中级人民法院的刑庭法官。1996年南京大学社会学系毕业，获法学硕士学位。1999年获南京大学中国哲学博士学位。随后在南京师范大学进行文艺学专业的博士后研究，2001年完成博士后研究，留校任教。
从2003年起，郭泉开始发起抵制日货运动，在公众场合砸毁日货，并动员学生和朋友参加。2005年1月31日，郭泉和浙江丽水学院的教师邬伟民，前往安徽歙县雄村乡柘林村，用斧头和榔头将日本人修建的王直墓墓碑和芳名塔砸毁。此后，郭泉还组织"大中华反日同盟会"，"全国保钓联盟"，并是南京大屠杀研究中心兼职研究员。
2005年末2006年初，郭泉又开始发起汉服运动，全家穿汉服出现在南京街头，并在中国数十所高校举办汉族传统服饰文化的讲座[1]。
2008年，郭泉又领导和参与军转干部的维权活动。并发布对汶川大地震的评论。
2008年11月13日郭泉被南京警方带走，并抄家。家属被告知郭泉已被刑事拘留，涉嫌颠覆国家政权罪。[2]。
2009年6月10日，由江苏省宿迁中级法院立案。8月7日，在宿迁中级法院开庭审理。[3]8月24日，郭泉的辩护律师郭莲辉被告知延期审理。[4]
2009年10月16日，南京中级法院以颠覆国家政权罪判处郭泉10年有期徒刑。
Guo Quan (Chinese: 郭泉; pinyin: Guō Quán; born 1968) is a Chinese human rights 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 Nanjing University'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.
In early 2008, Guo Quan, a university professor who had been dismissed after having founded a democratic opposition party, announced plans to sue Yahoo!( Chief Executive Jerry Yang)and Google in the United States for having blocked his name from search results in China.
| " | Guo Quan, an expert on classical Chinese literature and the 1937 Nanjing massacre of Chinese civilians by Japanese troops, last week issued an open letter pledging to bring a lawsuit against Google after he discovered that his name had been excised in searches of its google.cn portal in China. He told The Times that he had now found that the Chinese Yahoo! site had also blocked his name and he planned to bring actions against both companies. Mr Guo said: "Since 1 January a lot of friends told me that websites with my name had been closed. They told me it's impossible to search for my information on Google and Yahoo!" | " |
- On 28 Feb 2008 Elinor Mills of Businessweek reported that several plaintiffs filed suit in Oakland, California federal court against Internet portal Yahoo, alleges that Yahoo provided information to the Chinese authorities that led to the 2003 arrest of Li Zhi, who has served about half of an eight-year sentence.
Both Plaintiff Zheng Cunzhu (Ch:郑存柱) and plaintiff Guo Quan alleged that Yahoo's business tactic had caused them personal and financial harm. Zheng Cunzhu claimed :"(he) lost his property in China when he did not return for fear of getting arrested for his pro-democracy activities" and Guo Quan claimed that " he lost business when his name and that of his garment company were blocked by the Yahoo search results."
List of claims against Yahoo:
- violation of international law including torture and prolonged detention
- unfair business practices
- intentional infliction of emotional distress
- false imprisonment and assault.
in November(2007) Yahoo settled an out of court lawsuit filed by family members of two other dissidents serving 10-year sentences after Yahoo handed their account information over to the Chinese government. And "last week(Jan 2008) Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang sent U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a letter asking the government to secure the release of dissidents jailed in China for their pro-democracy sentiments."[1]
[edit] Open letters to Hu Jintao
- On 14 November 2007, Professor Guo Quan published an open letter to Chinese communist leaders Hu Jintao and Wu Bangguo, calling for a "democratic government based on multi-party elections that serves the interests of the common folks."[2]
[edit] Police harassments and arrests
On 2007 Mr Guo threw down a gauntlet to the ruling Communist Party by declaring that he has formed a underground China New Democracy Party with 10 million members at home and abroad, and he was the acting chairman of the new party. His very public open letters to President Hu Jintao demanding multi-party elections and the depoliticisation of the People's Liberation Army, was widely published in 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 The Guardian 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 [3]
Guo Quan's wife Li Jing told reporter that Guo had been detained many times before, for a few days at a time. Now it could be for longer. "The police told me to prepare myself psychologically," she said.
On 6 Feb 2008 Guo Quan told Jane Macartney, of The Times "that he had now found that the Chinese Yahoo! site had also blocked his name and he planned to bring actions against both companies." Mr Guo said: "Since January 1 a lot of friends told me that websites with my name had been closed. They told me it's impossible to search for my information on Google and Yahoo!"[4]
| " | Writer and former professor of literature at Nanjing Normal University, detained November 13, 2008 on "suspicion of subverting state authority." The reason for his arrest is not yet known, but is believed to be related to his writings. He had been detained for ten days in May 2008 following seven articles he published on mainland Chinese web sites that criticize the government's emergency response to the May 12,2008 Sichuan earthquake and the safety of certain infrastructures.[5] | " |
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.[6]
On 17 Oct 2009, Reuters reported that he was sentenced to 10 years in jail.
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