Guo guoting

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Guo Guoting (Chinese: 郭 国 汀, born January 10, 1958 ) comes from Changting County , Longyan City , Fujian Province in China . Guo studied law at Jilin University in China and graduated in 1984. Guo is a former Chinese attorney and co-founder of the Tian Yi Law Firm in Shanghai . Guo was one of the few lawyers in China who defended dissidents and persecuted Falun Gong practitioners . He represented the detained attorney Zheng Enchong and journalist Shi Tao . As a result of these activities, the authorities in Shanghai allegedly revoked his lawyer license. A year after losing the right to practice his profession and his freedom of movement, he immigrated to Canada . Guo was visiting scholar at the University of Victoria, Canada, and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Guo is the mediator of the China Maritime Arbitration Commission, a member of the International Bar Association, a member of the Committee on Maritime Law and the Committee on International Trade Law, and visiting professor at the University of Wuhan , Shanghai == Maritime University and the China University of Economics and Commerce. Guo has authored and translated several legal textbooks and published several papers in the areas of commercial law, arbitration, international commercial law and the law of the sea.

Defense of dissidents

In 2005, L awyer’s Rights Watch in Canada reported that the Shanghai Justice Department banned Chinese human rights attorney Guo Guoting for one year for dishonoring and slandering the Communist Party . This action was one of several harassments that Guo had endured in the previous months because of his defense work by activists and dissidents. The New York Times called Guo the "casual activist" who was a respected and well-known lawyer in China who specialized in maritime law for more than 20 years before starting human rights defenses in 2003.

Since 2003, Guo has served as legal counsel on several controversial cases involving Falun Gong practitioners, activist journalists and cyber dissidents, including imprisoned writers Shi Tao , Zhang Lin and Huang Jinqiu. Guo was banned from working for a year and was charged and placed under house arrest. The Chinese authorities mentioned that the reason for their decision was because of the articles Guo wrote and allegedly posted on the Internet. Among them was an article published on the online edition of the Epoch Times newspaper on February 16, in which he defended Qu Yanlai, a Falun Gong practitioner detained near Shanghai.

Media reports

Reporters Without Borders , Der Spiegel and Handelsblatt reported in 2005 that Chinese authorities had threatened the lawyer Guo Guoting with a professional ban for defending authors and journalists. Guo's Shanghai office was reportedly raided and his computer confiscated.

Canadian politician advocates guo guoting

David Kilgour , former Secretary of State for Asia Pacific, attorney and MP in Canada, wrote a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2005 demanding the immediate release of attorney Guo. Kilgour also called for Guo Guoting to stop working as a lawyer because he had done nothing wrong. Guo has been involved in trials defending journalists, critics of the regime, Falun Gong practitioners, and a fellow lawyer.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rachel E. Stern, Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence , Cambridge University Press, p. 276, March 31, 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-02002-3 , accessed August 8, 2017
  2. ^ "Walking on Thin Ice": Control, Intimidation, and Harassment of Lawyers in China , Human Rights Watch, 2008, p. 99, ISBN 1-56432-311-0 , accessed on August 8, 2017
  3. ↑ Ulric Killion, A Modern Chinese Journey to the West: Economic Globalization And Dualism , Nova Publishers, p. 100, May 2, 2006. ISBN 978-1-59454-905-2 , accessed August 8, 2017
  4. ^ Jean-Philippe Beja, Hualing Fu, Eva Pils, Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China , Hong Kong University Press, p. 133, 2012. ISBN 978-988-220-879-7 , accessed on August 8, 2017
  5. ↑ Li Xiaorong, Guo Guoting ( January 27, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ), China Digital Times, March 4, 2005, accessed August 8, 2017
  6. ^ "Walking on Thin Ice," Human Rights Watch, April 28, 2008, accessed August 8, 2017
  7. ↑ a b c China: Guo Guoting, Lawyer , Lawyer's Rights Watch Canada, April 7, 2005, accessed August 8, 2017
  8. ↑ Guo Guoting, Chinese Attorney Exposes Human Rights Abuses in Shanghai Prison ( Memento April 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), Special to the Epoch Times, The Epoch Times, February 16, 2005, accessed August 8, 2017
  9. ^ Prohibition of practicing lawyers threatened by Internet authors in China , Heise Online, March 2, 2005, accessed on August 8, 2017
  10. ↑ China threatens Internet lawyer , Spiegel Online, March 2, 2005, accessed August 8, 2017
  11. ↑ Prohibition from practicing lawyers threatened by Internet authors in China , Handelsblatt, March 2, 2005, accessed on August 8, 2017
  12. ↑ David Kilgour, Canada: David Kilgour, Member of the Canadian Parliament, writes to the Chinese President and calls for the immediate release of Guo Guoting , Minghui.org, April 7, 2005, accessed August 8, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Guo, guoting
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomas G Guo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH County Changting , Longyan City, Fujian Province