Person profile: Guo Xinmin / 郭新民
This archive collects reporting on Guo Xinmin, a Tianshui, Gansu labor-rights activist who co-founded China Workers Monitor (《中国工人观察》) and was imprisoned in 1999.
Case timeline
- 1995 — Amnesty International reports that Guo and Yue Tianxiang were laid off from the Tianshui City Transport Company while owed three months’ back pay and pursued the dispute through the local labour arbitration committee.
- January 1999 — Guo, Yue, and Wang Fengshan establish China Workers Monitor, petition then-President Jiang Zemin, and are arrested, according to Amnesty International.
- July 5, 1999 — CPJ reports that the Tianshui People’s Intermediate Court sentenced Yue to ten years and Guo and Wang to two years. Amnesty’s annual report places all three sentences in the same “subverting state power” prosecution, but the precise charge sheeted against Guo is not separately quoted.
- By 2002 — Amnesty reports Guo and Wang had been released; RSF later records release at the end of their sentences. No exact release date is asserted here.
Source archive
- Reporters Without Borders, Annual Report 2004 — China
- Committee to Protect Journalists, 2004 prison census
- Committee to Protect Journalists, 2002 prison census
- Amnesty International Report 2002 — China
- Amnesty International, “Detained and Imprisoned Labour Rights Activists” (ASA 17/014/2002)
- Committee to Protect Journalists, “Attacks on the Press 2001: Journalists in Prison”
Archive notes
The exact release date is not established. The Amnesty document is the principal case record; CPJ, RSF, and Amnesty’s annual report provide corroborating summaries. No original judgment or release document is claimed here.
Person profile: Guo Xinmin / 郭新民