CHINA: Academic imprisoned for criticising government

by E Wayne Ross on November 3, 2009

World University News: CHINA: Academic imprisoned for criticising government

A former professor at Nanjing Normal University and leader of a campaign for competitive multiparty democracy has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by Chinese authorities for alleged ‘subversion of state power’, the Financial Times has reported. Guo Quan was sentenced on 16 October in Suqian, a city in the eastern province of Jiangsu, four months after the case was filed with the court in June.